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" There are few sexual subjects more polarizing than pornography. (Except maybe flatulophilia.) Should we feel offended when we see a woman take cum shot after cum shot to the face? Or should we be giving her the ol&amp;#039; you go, girl for valiantly allowing herself to become splooge canvas, and consider that just maybe this is turning her on as well?  There&amp;#039;s an ongoing argument as to the negative affects porn might have on the viewer: Like, if teenage boys are sexually educated via Spankwire, they might think that good sex and rapid-pounding are one and the same. (And, hey, for some people, maybe they are.) New research sheds some light onto the affect porn has on men, showing that guys who fall low on what&amp;#039;s called an &amp;quot;agreeable&amp;quot; scale (as in, men who are more likely to be hostile, cold, and into themselves\u2026hey! what&amp;#039;s my ex boyfriend doing here?), are more likely to display sexist tendencies after their xxx-rated movie watching. Basically, porn makes a-holes into even bigger a-holes. The study&amp;#039;s co-author, Neil Malamuth, a psychology professor at UCLA and a longtime porn researcher, says there is no single determining factor that causes porn to influence certain men but not others, but he&amp;#039;s identified a few groups of traits that correlate highly: Men who come from homes where there&amp;#039;s a high degree of violence or abuse or who have certain delinquent tendencies, guys who have a general life pattern of sexual promiscuity rather than sex in the context of intimacy, and men who have a general hostility toward women. These men &amp;quot;have a high likelihood of aggression against women and it&amp;#039;s those men who have that profile who appear to be most attracted to\u2014and are more affected by\u2014certain kinds of pornography that reinforce their attitudes against women,&amp;quot; Malamuth says. In short, women-hating men dig women-hating porn and it makes them hate women more. Capiche? However, Malamuth&amp;#039;s latest findings on porn and sexism are far more surprising because he and his research partner, Gert Martin Hald, of the University of Copenhagen, casted a wider net by looking at more general anti-social attitudes, rather than a proclivity toward violence against women. They also studied Danish men, who are supposed to be super female-friendly and more open-minded: &amp;quot;Denmark has a high level of egalitarianism between men and women,&amp;quot; Malamuth says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s always been a prime example of a country to liberalize porn early on, in which porn is available with [seemingly] no negative affects, and to have a wide acceptance of porn and sexual expression.&amp;quot; But even among men in Denmark, porn had a negative affect\u2014in the form of aggrvated sexist attitutes\u2014on the aforementioned subgroup of guys who fell low on Malamuth and Hald&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;agreeable&amp;quot; scale. &amp;quot;What we&amp;#039;ve concluded is not that porn creates these attitudes but that it accentuates them,&amp;quot; Malamuth says. &amp;quot;If these men already have these kinds of beliefs, but they are more dormant, porn appears to prompt these [tendencies] in their conscious minds. These men already have these tendencies; porn adds fuel to the fire.&amp;quot; So, if porn turns &amp;quot;cold&amp;quot; men into cold-blooded sexists, these findings really reinforce the dire need for lady porn.  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. Photo: Getty Images  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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