colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (01/24/85)
> > Actually, there was a half-decent (and methodologically correct) study > >in the Journal of Communication about two years ago. > > ...It was shown that exposure > >to even "non-hurtful" films with explicit sexual content ... > > had the nonlinear result of changing the > >students' attitudes towards certain sexual crimes and perfectly normal acts. > > After seeing "Mad Max", "Road Warrior", and playing _Car Wars_ all in one > weekend, I noticed my driving became much more aggressive. "Methodologically correct" is rather vague. You need a control in which subjects are exposed to films with no eroticism at all. I suspect that exposure to _any_ film changes people's sexual attitudes. It has to do with the way that a giant movie screen assaults the viewer's senses. People in movies are automatically changed into something else. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel
dsi@unccvax.UUCP (Dataspan Inc) (02/17/85)
In point of fact, there was a control group of which films of general interest were shown . . . dya .