We can’t wait to see the comments on this one.
The MIT-based site, which critiques science reporting, takes on Naomi Wolf’s post on CNN’s Global Public Square entitled “”https://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/30/is-pornography-driving-men-crazy/“>Is pornography driving men crazy?” She used recent public sex scandals as her starting point, talking about “how many highly visible men in recent years (indeed, months) have behaved in sexually self-destructive ways.”
Whether the wide availability of pornography on the Internet is adversely affecting society and relationships is an important question. We ought to ask it, and researchers ought to do careful studies to find out.
Treating opinions or views as scientific facts does not help us answer that question. Nor does it help Wolf. Her argument would be far more persuasive and credible if she supported her views with scientific findings. If Wolf wants her opinions to matter, she ought to do the reporting.
Wolf is one of the most influential thinkers in what’s sometimes called third-wave feminism. She owes us much better than this.