This just in: Porn makes you smarter!
Well, not really. But I couldn't help but be amused when I read the following in an otherwise gloomy report on the declining popularity of reading, not just in America, but apparently everywhere, in the current issue of The New Yorker (the 24 December and 31 December 2007 issue, published on Monday, 17 December; "Twilight of the Books" by Caleb Crain, under the heading "Critic At Large"):
"The Internet, happily, does not so far seem to be antagonistic to literacy. Researchers recently gave Michigan children and teen-agers home computers in exchange for permission to monitor their Internet use. The study found that grades and reading scores rose with the amount of time spent online. Even visits to pornography Web sites improved academic performance. Of course, such synergies may disappear if the Internet continues its YouTube-fuelled evolution away from print and toward television."
So that's what my undergraduate career was missing: ready access to free, high-quality feelthy peek-tchures (no movie clips, please; just still candids).
*Blinks*
Now, if you'll excuse me, I should be able to crank out my 17th doctoral dissertation before work.
"The Internet, happily, does not so far seem to be antagonistic to literacy. Researchers recently gave Michigan children and teen-agers home computers in exchange for permission to monitor their Internet use. The study found that grades and reading scores rose with the amount of time spent online. Even visits to pornography Web sites improved academic performance. Of course, such synergies may disappear if the Internet continues its YouTube-fuelled evolution away from print and toward television."
So that's what my undergraduate career was missing: ready access to free, high-quality feelthy peek-tchures (no movie clips, please; just still candids).
*Blinks*
Now, if you'll excuse me, I should be able to crank out my 17th doctoral dissertation before work.