Re: Pornographic videos and magazines?

["John M Price, PhD" <jmprice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barbara Meddin" <barbarme@gwmail.fcs.wa.gov.au>
> To: "Child Maltreatment Researchers"
> <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 1:44 PM
> Subject: Pornographic videos and magazines?
> 
> 
> > Does anyone knows of any work on the effects of a child (aged 7) being
> exposed to pornographic videos and magazines?

If there aren't any, I'd not go looking for them in the kid.  We don't ask
this question about violence, after all, and there is a much larger
portion of that in the media consumption 'diet'.

That said, you might check this source I got from a PsychINFO search:

31. BOOK CHAPTER
    Cline, Victor B.
      Pornography effects: Empirical and clinical evidence.
    IN:  Media, children, and the family:  Social scientific,
    psychodynamic, and clinical perspectives. Dolf Zillmann, Ed;
    Jennings Bryant, Ed; et al.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc,
    Hillsdale, NJ, USA. 1994. p. 229-247 of xiii, 351 pp.
      Series title:  LEA's communication series.
      Intended audience:  Psychology: Professional & Research.

Abstract: [integrates] clinical and empirical social scientific
     perspectives [on the effects of pornography]; [blends]
     detailed examples from clinical practice with more objective
     findings from empirical research [to offer] revealing insights
     into the uses and effects of pornography ((c) 1997
     APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved).



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