Are Pornography and Marriage Substitutes for Young Men?
by Michael Malcolm, George S Naufal
(November 2014)
forthcoming in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2015

Abstract:
Substitutes for marital sexual gratification may impact the decision to marry. Proliferation of the Internet has made pornography an increasingly low-cost substitute. We investigate the effect of Internet usage, and of pornography consumption specifically, on the marital status of young men. We show that increased Internet usage is negatively associated with marriage formation. Pornography consumption specifically has an even stronger effect. Instrumental variables and a number of robustness checks suggest that the effect is causal.

http://www.iza.org/de/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=8679

Well, now they notice it. And they provide the usual anti-porn feminist narrative. But we all know that decease of marriage is a larger trend, which has nothing to do with porn.

Consumerism and economy growth is at stake, if men stop providing for females and they know it. This is going to hit them hard and I love it!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/22/japans-sexual-apathy-is-endangering-the-global-economy/

This article gives a nice overview of the issue, but no where near in-depth as the journal article I seen previously. Although they focus on the issue of sexual apathy, and they have a bunch of fem-Nazi talking points like “backwards gender equality”, but the issue is raised. Perhaps this issue in Japan from a few years back ( I don’t believe it has been resolved either) might be lying ahead for other countries.

“The Japanese economy is in serious enough trouble that it could set the rest of us back. And the biggest source of that trouble is demographic: Japanese people aren’t having enough kids to sustain a healthy economy. One big reason they’re having fewer kids is that they’re not as interested in dating or marrying one another, in part because they’re less interested in sex.”

Japan has had weaker economy in recent years and for one of the main concerns addressed to be low birth rates means a lot. Japan has had a sluggish economy the last few years, but they are still in the top-ten in the world. Most alarmingly is they have massive debt to GDP ( gross domestic product aka the s~~~ you sell to bring in money to pay said debt ). They need babies to pay off the debt of their parents…. I guess this is the major flaw to debt based systems, but that is another discussion in itself. The wash post article has some good charts showing what happens to population when a generation decides sex isn’t for them…

Like you I believe that more people will start to catch notice of it more and more. However, this issue is a few years old and also might be more wide spread than people realize. Although this isn’t a good thing as the only options for left for the masses are not pretty… At it’s most extreme it means the government intervening and doing something about it. Something I don’t want to think about, and hopefully I’ll be on my sail boat in the Caribbean with my bottle of jack before anything gets that extreme….

Just my two cents, good find.

To paraphrase Bill Clinton: “It’s the feminism, stupid!”

Seriously, though… I wouldn’t be surprised to see someone propose some form of a “bachelor tax”.

“No one asked: Does marriage stop pornography?”

I don’t believe that’s even a legit question to ask same with the does pornography stop or replace marriage. I tried reading the journal article bit more but its 40 pages of stats guys trying to draw a connection between time spent on the internet and the probability if you are married… Although the beginning of the journal article had some decent data it seems misleading to some extent and uses subjective terms like happiness level and satisfaction… I bet a woman had a part in it… LOL

However, I did find a gem…

the United States has seen considerable demographic changes with respect to family
arrangements over the last few decades. Between 1950 and 2010, the rate of marital formation
dropped by 39%, with a 17% drop between 2000 and 2010 alone.1 Today, the proportion of men
between 25 and 34 years old who have never been married is more than six times higher than it
was in 1970. For men between 35 and 44 years old, the increase has been more than fourfold.
Marriages that do form are about twice as likely to end in divorce today as in 1950.

Reality sets in a bit… From 2000-2010 marriage declined nearly the same amount as the previous 50 years.

Perhaps it’s planned….

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

In that same light I just seen they have fully automated sex robots…. Whatever the case is people have without a doubt caught on to the trend are marketing products and even legislation accordingly…

Just more reason to do your own thing and forget about all this….

While it is probably impossible to eliminate online access to pornography at this point, policies like those in the UK can at least increase the cost associated with accessing it. If the results in this paper are correct, policies along these lines have the potential to reduce pornography usage and increase marital entry, with its attendant welfare improvements.

See, censoring the Internet to get men back into marriage. There it starts…

<cite>@john_doe said:</cite>
No one asked: Does marriage stop pornography?

Or, does marriage increase pornography viewing because wifey decided to withhold sex from hubby?