Watching porn may lead to divorce: study

Watching porn may be detrimental for your married life as this leads to people accepting extra-marital affairs as a "normal and rewarding" thing - leading to divorce.

Watching porn may be detrimental for your married life as this leads to people accepting extra-marital affairs as a "normal and rewarding" thing - leading to divorce.

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According to a study, the more a person watches porn, the more likely he/she is in a state of accepting extra-marital affairs.

"If pornography consumption leads to more positive extra-marital sex attitudes as the results suggest, porn may be a contributing factor in some divorces via extra-marital sex behaviour," the researchers emphasised.

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To prove their point, researchers used data from 551 married adults collected by the General Social Survey in the US.

Participants were asked questions like, "Have you seen an X-rated movie in the last year?" and "What is your opinion about a married person having sexual relations with someone other than the marriage partner?"

"Porn consumption was associated with more positive subsequent extra-marital sex attitudes," the researchers were quoted as saying in a Huffington Post report.

The study appeared in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture.