Turns Out BYU Is Not A Fan Of You Watching Porn At Work
When I need to turn to an authority on porn, I look directly at Brigham Young University. Some of you may know that fine establishment as BYU or the college football team that has a bunch of 23-year-old freshman linebackers.
Recently, BYU wanted to answer the age-old question, “is watching porn at work actually bad?” It turns out it is.
SOURCE-The study, titled “The Effects of Pornography on Unethical Behavior in Business,” was published in the Journal of Business Ethics and authored by BYU accounting professors Melissa Lewis-Western and David Wood, as well as Nathan Mecham, former BYU grad student who’s now a Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh.
Uhhhhhhh, ya think?
The experiment involved 200 participants divided into two groups; one group was asked to recall and record their last experience viewing pornography, and the control group was instead asked to recall and record their most recent experience exercising. For ethical reasons, researchers didn’t expose participants directly to pornography.
Yes, Bill, what we want you to do is sit down at work, with a camera, go to Porn Hub and record your experience.
Researchers then tasked both groups with watching the entirety of a “boring” 10-minute video that had a monotone voice speaking, according to the study. In the research paper, authors explained the video was meant to be boring to “provide an incentive for participants to skip the movie.”
The results showed that 21% of the first group did not finish watching the video and lied about it, whereas only 8% in the control group didn’t finish the movie and lied. “This represented a statistically significant 163 percent increase in shirking work and lying for those who view pornography,” according to a news release from BYU.
Gotta wonder why the first group stopped watching the video. Probably to go watch some PORN.
I’ve never understood those who watch porn at work. Now, maybe that’s because I work at a place where porn stars come into the office every now and then.
But watching porn at work? What are you going to do? Unzip your pants and go to town right in your cubicle? Sounds like the worst way to get fired.
Viewing pornography at work is fairly common, the research paper pointed out. It cited a 2018 survey that found nearly 60% of respondents watch pornography at work, with half viewing pornography on a monthly basis and 10% watching it daily.
60%?!?! 6 out of 10 Americans watch porn at work? I don’t believe you. No way that’s true. Or maybe more people are freaks than I know.