I can't stop watching this. And laughing. And then stroking my beard.

Don't worry. The methods are actually pretty bad, so it's probably not true to begin with.

Umm... Unless I'm reading the article wrong, they measured deaths in all these birth cohorts for a set period of years, NOT ACCOUNTING FOR THE FACT THAT THE YOUNGER COHORTS WERE YOUNGER DURING THIS PERIOD.

Exactly this. Also, psychologists and psychiatrists are biased based on their knowledge of gender rates for certain diseases. They're more likely to describe a patient as depressive if they're female even if they have the same scores on standardized measures.

Also, on the other side of things, there's this from a WHO site:

Geez I hate supporting bad science. But in fairness to the authors of the article, at no point do they conflate mental illness with sanity. Nor do they use the words "sane" or "insane".

Oh lol, just grabbed the top one! Looked at a bunch of polls earlier, and they're all the same though... Here's some Huffington Post to make you feel better

Back of the sign: "It's cool if he watches though"

We need a blowjob boycott for these nitwits.

The math on that one is pretty sad. Toy example:

If only I could believe that this was true.

What counts as OK? Who gets to decide? Are you going to freak out if your kid gets off from being spanked? From being humiliated? This kind of response is why so many people feel such shame about their sexual desires. Some people have rape fantasies. That's OK. They'll find partners to indulge them in safe and…

I'm not saying you don't have a right to limit what your kid sees. I also don't disagree that there are things kids SHOULDN'T see. But the fact is that with porn, your kid will probably see it. So I don't think it's productive to talk about how to stop kids from seeing it. I think the conversation needs to be more…

Well, the thing is they don't drive like Fast and Furious because they took DRIVER'S ED. Why in the hell don't we have ACTUAL SEX EDUCATION, bleargh!!!!

I think the problem with the ratings analogy is that there's no real evidence that ratings make a difference. It's not clear that watching violence makes a difference in the first place.

Geez, it's hard enough studying porn effects since there are so few guys NOT using porn.

Tis true. I think it's important though that this stuff doesn't have to be the end of the world. The goal is this right? 1) make sure your boy doesn't push girls to do things they don't want, 2) make sure your boy can function sexually with a real life female (assuming he's straight I suppose!)

The moral of the story is, If you don't want your kid to take on societal norms, you need to give them a counter-narrative.

Being on the other side of OKC, I'm totally off-put by the number of women who answer 'Yes' to that question...