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[Kepler]

"In a paper just released in the United States titled Porn Up, Rape Down, Northwestern University Law Professor Anthony D�amato crunches the numbers to reach the conclusion:

"The incidence of rape in the United States has declined 85 per cent in the past 25 years while access to pornography has become freely available to teenagers and adults. The Nixon and Reagan Commissions tried to show that exposure to pornographic materials produced social violence. The reverse may be true: that pornography has reduced social violence."
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4845

This also happened in Japan when more porn became available.
"Wilson (1978) found that 'Males who develop deviant patterns of sexual behavior in adulthood have suffered relative deprivation of experience with pornography in adolescence.' He suggests that pornography not only can, but does, help to prevent criminal sex problems (pp. 176)...It is certainly clear from the data reviewed, and the new data and analysis presented, that a massive increase in available pornography in Japan, the United States and elsewhere has been correlated with a dramatic decrease in sexual crimes and most so among youngsters as perpetrators or victims."

And places that enacted strict laws against porn experienced big increases in rape-
"The countries of Singapore and Union of South Africa as well as the Australian State of Queensland, during the same period investigated by Kutchinsky (1964-1974), were firmly against any pornography. Their anti-obscenity laws were quite broad. In Singapore rape rates increased by 69 percent, in South Africa the rape rate increased by 28 percent and in Queensland the increase was 23 percent (Court, 1984)."
http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/pornography/prngrphy_ovrvw.html

So it looks like porn may do a lot more good than bad.

[Keepongoing]

As we know, Korea has a large sex industry and the wider availability of porn would cut into the GNP. Also the change in porn laws in Korea would risk removing its mask of sexual purity.

Yesterday I had some Koreans explain to me that they were glad they did not live in the West where cohabitation and pre=marital sex was so widely and openly practticed

[mindmetoo]

[RACETRAITOR]

One of my university professors took part in a very shady study a long time ago, before there were laws against things like this. They staked out a porn store, and would follow customers home to see what kind of places they lived in. Way fewer perverts living in bachelor pads than successful family men.

I've always believed pornography is a deterrent to not only sex crimes, but also to cheating in monogamous relationships.

[mindmetoo]

[Fishead soup]

[Kepler]

[samd]

I'd like the results to be true, but I'd like to see evidence of causality in these statistics.

I find it hard to believe that the most influential factor on the decrease in rapes in the US over the last 25 years is the increase in the availability of pornography.

Also, the article finds correlations between internet use and rape, which is not exactly the same thing as pornography availability and rape.

Other factors come into play. For example, poorer states will have lower levels of internet access, and also higher levels of crime. So are the increases in rapes in these states caused by the low level of internet access, or by poverty that also results in lower levels of internet access.

[mindmetoo]