Internet Pornography Use Among Traditional-Aged College Students
Joseph Roberson Jr
Strayer University

Author Note This assignment is being submitted on April 30th, 2013, for Professor Ogtabwe’s SOC100
Intro to Sociology

Internet Pornography Use Among Traditional-Aged College Students
I chose to review an article out of the periodical called Sociological viewpoints, on Internet Pornography use among traditional aged college students. This article was written by two gentlemen, William Beaver and Stephen Paul, and was placed in the fall 2011 edition. This article was new research as they set out to improve on experiments already done on the topic and find growth in the area. You can tell this is new research because the authors have a previous studies section and throughout the article reference those studies when deemed applicable. To achieve these results they chose to use surveys (Beaver & Paul, 2011, pp25-38). Mr. Beaver and Mr. Paul handed out a 24 question survey to 439 undergraduate students, received 407 responses, attending a private university and community college in Western Pennsylvania (Beaver & Paul, 2011, pp25-38). Those surveyed where primarily enrolled in introductory level social science courses, were between the ages of 18 to 26, and averaged an age of 19.9 years old (Beaver & Paul, 2011, pp25-38).
After weighing the variables used and carefully reviewing the responses from the surveys they determined a couple things to be true. When it comes to the acceptance of internet pornography gender plays a huge role. As expected male college students still watch more internet pornography than females as well as find it a lot more acceptable and natural than females(Beaver & Paul, 2011, pp25-38). However 65% percent of females don’t view internet pornography as negative and that percentage increases the longer females have been