▲ Porn: Divorce's Scapegoat?
by Melissa Thompson
Does watching porn ruin marriages? Are porn users more likely to have unrealistic expectations of their partners? Do all women hate porn? Do all men love porn? These are all questions Vicki Larson takes on (with only minimal success) in her piece on the Huffington Post.
Larson’s piece is problematic, but it does get the reader thinking about the role of porn in relationships and marriages. Although the tone is questionable and some of her reporting is problematic (using a 2003 statistic about the role of porn in divorces and then talking how this number is rapidly increasing leaves the reader wondering what the numbers are in 2011—updated data is vital to making this a legitimate argument) Larson’s argument about using “porn addiction” as a scapegoat for other issues is a compelling one.
