SMART Lab

12/04/2020

Calling all women (cis- trans and non-binary)! APPROACH is an interesting new study about female s*xual desire / arousal disorder. Contact [email protected] if you'd like to contribute.

08/17/2020

Congratulations to SMaRt Lab's Dr. William Fisher for this remarkable achievement!

"The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University is pleased to name Dr. William A. Fisher as the recipient of the 2020 Alfred C. Kinsey Distinguished Researcher Award, which honors renowned scientists and academics who shape our understanding of human s*xuality through their s*x research."

More information can be found here: https://blogs.iu.edu/kinseyinstitute/2020/03/05/dr-william-fisher-named-2020-recipient-of-alfred-c-kinsey-distinguished-researcher-award/ #.XzcB0T_UnB4.mailto

Dr. William Fisher Named 2020 Recipient of Alfred C. Kinsey Distinguished Researcher Award Posted on 03/05/2020 by Kinsey Institute Image credit: Adela Talbot // Western News The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University is pleased to name Dr. William A. Fisher as the recipient of the 2020 Alfred C. Ki...

04/06/2020

A useful COVID-19 fact sheet for those of you who wish to remain s*xual active during the pandemic has been assembled by the S*x Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN). Check it out!

http://sieccan.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Trojan-SIECCAN-S*xual-Health-and-COVID-19.pdf

03/10/2020

SMaRt lab's Taylor Kohut has been stirring up trouble for himself in a recent interview with the CBC by contradicting claims of po*******hy's inherent harmfulness.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/london-p**nhub-protest-1.5491829

02/06/2020

New opportunity to participate in research! Contribute some data and have a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.

https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bsAVUuXrc46BnCd

Qualtrics sophisticated online survey software solutions make creating online surveys easy. Learn more about Research Suite and get a free account today.

01/24/2020

I recently enjoyed a lively conversation about p**n research with the gentleman at . The resulting podcast is now available!

https://t.co/37jqFLUMf8?amp=1

December 6, 2019 Kyle Gooderham Social Perspective Taking in Children with Epilepsy with Kathie Bailey December 6, 2019 Kyle Gooderham In Episode Six of Season Three we are joined by Kathie Bailey from Queen’s University and Trent University to chat about social problem solving and perspective tak...

12/16/2019

Taylor Kohut recently wrote a piece for S*x and Psychology about the dangers of p**n for teens. From a research perspective, the situation isn't nearly as bad as many people think it it.

https://www.lehmiller.com/blog/2019/12/13/po*******hy-is-dangerous-for-teens-chill-out-the-kids-are-going-to-be-mostly-alright

Americans have become increasingly fond of calling po*******hy a “public health crisis.” Those who claim this frequently cite adolescents’ “rampant access to po*******hy” as a central concern. Parents are encouraged to panic because “[p]orn is radically undermining the healthy developmen...

12/11/2019

"A great deal of po*******hy research relies on dubious measurements. Measurement of po*******hy
use has been highly variable across studies and existing measurement approaches have not been
developed using standard psychometric practices nor have they addressed construct validation or
reliability. This state of affairs is problematic for the accumulation of knowledge about the nature of
po*******hy use, its antecedents, correlates, and consequences, as it can contribute to inconsistent
results across studies and undermine the generalizability of research findings."

More than you probably ever wanted to know about problems with the measurement of p**n use in survey research: A new review paper by Taylor Kohut, Rhonda Nicole Balzarini, William Fisher, Josh Grubbs, Lorne Campbell, & Nikky Prause.

It's open access so take a look if this peaks your interest.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2019.1695244

(2019). Surveying Po*******hy Use: A Shaky Science Resting on Poor Measurement Foundations. The Journal of S*x Research. Ahead of Print.

09/30/2019

Dr. T. Kohut recently sat down for a NSFW chat about p**n research with Patric from Intellectual Er****on. If you have contributed to our research about po*******hy, or are simply a fan of our work, you might want to check out this podcast.

https://soundcloud.com/intellectual-erection/dr-taylor-kohut-researches-p**n

On this episode I speak with p**n researcher Dr. Taylor Kohut about some of his studies concerning p**n use and well-being, relationships, religious affiliation, and misogyny. Have you ever asked yo

06/12/2019

I had no idea that a famous early p**nographer hailed from Croatia. Why didn't anyone mention this while I was there?

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/07/07/franz-von-bayros_n_7717640.html

Warning: The following images contain explicit s*xual imagery and may not be suitable for work. When daydreaming about the luxurious lives of the ...

06/11/2019

If you happen to be in NYC this summer, consider checking out some vintage p**n!

https://hypebeast.com/2019/6/p**nhub-museum-of-s*x-exhibition-stag-the-illicit-origins-of-p**nographic-film

Black and white movies from the 1900s made in secrecy.

06/10/2019

For those interested in a brief overview of the history of po*******hy and it's role in the development of new technologies check out the following piece by Tim Harford:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48283409

S*x has always helped develop and accelerate technology.

06/07/2019

This story reminds me of the time that someone tried to undermine the validity of one of our studies by pointing out that all of the authors had prominent Jewish names.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/hate-groups-p**n-conspiracy.html

Buried in the manifestoes of some extremists are attacks on the p**n industry, which is blamed for their own struggles and what they perceive as society’s decline.

06/06/2019

"People like s*x workers and adult entertainers are actually among the strongest opponents of child s*xual abuse. But they are very seldom heard, because other child protection groups have a broader anti-p**n and anti-s*x work agenda, which silences minority voices -- especially LGBTQ+ people, kinky people, and s*x workers."

https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/31/s*x-lies-and-surveillance-fosta-privacy/

How anti-trafficking profiteers surveil us

06/03/2019

Corroborating our previous analysis of the GSS data, a new study found that male p**n "superfans" who attended the AVN Expo had more gender egalitarian attitudes than the general public on 2 of 4 indicators.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/socf.12506

Original Article EXPOsing Men's Gender Role Attitudes as P**n Superfans† Crystal A. Jackson Corresponding Author E-mail address: [email protected] Department of Sociology, John Jay College‐CUNY, 524 W. 59th St. 520.02HH, New York, New York, 10019 Search for more papers by this author Aleta...

05/24/2019

We're very proud that our Nazanin Kafaee represented SMaRT Lab at the EASP meeting in Annecy France! Here
she is presenting her own research indicating that s*xting is positively associated with s*xual and relationship satisfaction (but not closeness) among long distance couples.

05/15/2019

I bit this wouldn't go over so well if a politician tried it in North America.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/world/europe/denmark-joachim-olsen-p**nhub.html

Facing brutal competition during concurrent election campaigns, a governing party lawmaker drew attention by placing an ad where others wouldn’t.

05/13/2019

If you haven't heard of moral incongruence and why it matters when it comes to understanding the "effects" of po*******hy, check out this interview with Sam Perry: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/a-sociologist-of-religion-on-protestants-p**n-and-the-purity-industrial-complex?fbclid=IwAR0Zkv9jfSF4kwEn2TzJTfT4Oprp_yZ-9bl5HmtaRVlECFbZXyX9XKpIaec

In his book “Addicted to Lust: Po*******hy in the Lives of Conservative Protestants,” Samuel L. Perry explores how conservative Christians are grappling with easy access to Internet po*******hy.