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Fictional Architecture

As special effects budgets continue to grow, the architectural wonders that TV, film and video game producers create seem to get more and more impressive.

From the castles of Westeros to the imaginative, colorful designs of Studio Ghibli, they compiled some of the most iconic and interesting architectural feats that they feel best represent six of their favorite fictional universes. In order to capture the finer details and the feel of each building, they’ve illustrated each one with a pen and paper – and they are pretty happy with the results!

Art By IG: @paperboyo

“Countless studies have since shown that exposure to pornography desensitizes men to violence against women, o…ften shaping their sexuality in such a way that they become unable to experience arousal without some element of dominance or violence. The evidence has been so damning that, at times, universities have refused to allow further research on the topic. When a study shows detrimental effects that cannot be reversed, ethics boards will often refuse similar studies to go on. This has happened repeatedly with research on the effects of pornography.”

-Maya Shlayen, Whose Porn, Whose Feminism

EDIT: By lab research, we mean exposing human subjects to porn in a lab setting, as Dolf Zillmann and Jennings Bryant of the University of Alabama did in the mid-80′s. This kind of research no longer occurs because of the detrimental effects referenced above. 

You can, however, ask people questions about porn use that has occurred outside the lab setting, then compare their answers to a variety of measures like happiness, aggression, acceptance of rape myths, etc. You will still see this kind of research, because it does not involve the researchers actually showing people porn. 

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