The team looked at American data on how 1,500 men aged 18-35 years old used the Internet between 2000 and 2004, when Internet porn was nowhere near as prevalent as it is now.
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In particular they looked at how much time the men spent on the Internet, and how much porn they looked at in the past 30 days.
The general trend was that higher Internet use was linked to lower marriage rates.
However, more than anything else, the use of porn was associated with men who were not married.
By contrast, those who regularly used religious websites were more likely to be married.
The researchers found that the increasing ease in which pornography could be accessed was an ‘important factor underlying the decline in marriage formation and stability’.
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