Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation

schwit1 writes "The Washington Times reports, 'The problems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were so pervasive they swamped the agency's inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars.' One senior executive at the National Science Foundation spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer, records show. The cost to taxpayers: up to $58,000. Why aren't they running a product like Websense?"

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First NSF

[UncleWilly]

National Sex Foundation

Just further proof.

[Icegryphon]

Government does everything better then the private sector.

Re:bad idea...

[COMON$]

Nah, it is proven that Porn (excessive), causes issues in relationships and effectively causes issues in the male psyche. Given there are youtube videos that will cause scars they are not nearly as potent as porn is. I can't pull up the research as I am here at work :) But, males in particular have issues with just looking at porn, it usually causes a physiological response as well as a mental one. There are other studies showing long term effects on attitude, behavior, and sex life.

Re:Porn at work should be encouraged

[OrangeMonkey11]

"Many companies have put in "game rooms" with pool tables and other recreational apparatus to help employees work off some stress and be more productive at their jobs."

first off this is not a private company this is a government facility funded by tax payer; it's obvious that you don't paid taxes or care what the government do with your tax dollar. and considering state of our country right now with a whole shit storm of money issue tax payer money could have gone to better things that could have benefited us all; but instead it was spent on paying for some POS to jerk off at work.

Re:bad idea...

[COMON$]

You mean references like:

http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/11/books/bk-powers11

or

http://www.lightedcandle.org/pornstats/porn_is_bad.asp

or

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29644568/ns/today-today_relationships/

No whitepapers offhand sorry.

Re:bad idea...

[COMON$]

I think maybe then I misrepresented my opinion, Porn has a questionable effect on the individual viewing it. This is debatable because proving causation would be very difficult, however correlation is there, thus the debate. But saying that there is no negative effect would be ignorant.