February 7, 2013 | Sex & Society

Porn makes straight men more accepting of gays: study

Two American university professors have concluded that the more porn straight men watch, the more accepting they become towards “non-traditional sexual situations.”

“Our study suggests that the more heterosexual men, especially less educated heterosexual men, watch pornography, the more supportive they become of same-sex marriage,” Indiana University Assistant Professor Paul Wright said. He co-authored the report with Ashley Randall from the University of Arizona.

The study followed 500 heterosexual men's porn habits over 6 years. 

“Pornography adopts an individualistic, non-judgmental stance on all kinds of non-traditional sexual behaviours and same-sex marriage attitudes are strongly linked to attitudes about same-sex sex," he added.

“If people think individuals should be able to decide for themselves whether to have same-sex sex, they will also think that individuals should be able to decide for themselves whether to get married to a partner of the same-sex.”

With the amount of porn shooting all over the Internet, acceptance of gays can only go up! 

"Pornography consumption did predict over-time increases in support for same-sex marriage," the researchers noted in the report.  However, over the past six years support among the general population for gay marriage has increased significantly, so the study's findings could be coincidental. 

Still, this is yet another reason for the religious right to hate porn.

Watching porn makes straight men more receptive to the idea of same-sex marriage, new study claims [Daily Mail]