30 years later, porn affecting couples
By Candice Novak, Associate Copy Editor
September 12, 2006

TV, DVD, VHS and Internet porn and its effects on Americans in an era of Internet connectivity, rampant divorce and a booming porn industry. Part two of a series.

There are innumerable reasons couples break up. But in the last 25 years there has been a new emerging trend of couples breaking up, divorcing or seeking couples counseling; pornography. More commonly called porn, adult films, smut, hard-core, soft-core, R-17 movie, skin flick, stag film, or, the basic: the x-rated movie.

The less talked-about movie genre is more than not experienced alone. But with easy access from movie-ordering services, pay-per-view television and Internet downloads, porn has taken a leap into more lives than ever before.
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