Internet porn might reduce number of rapes

Someone had a theory once. I was heistant to offer credence.

Anyway,

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/1...urce=newsletter

Here's some food for thought for conservative groups demanding restrictions on Internet porn to safeguard the minds of innocent boys (an oxymoron if ever there was one): As it turns out, all those clips on Hustler.com may be protecting womens' safety.

http://www.slate.com/id/2152487

The bottom line on these experiments is, "More Net access, less rape." A 10 percent increase in Net access yields about a 7.3 percent decrease in reported rapes. States that adopted the Internet quickly saw the biggest declines. And, according to Clemson professor Todd Kendall, the effects remain even after you control for all of the obvious confounding variables, such as alcohol consumption, police presence, poverty and unemployment rates, population density, and so forth.

"The rise of the Internet offers a gigantic natural experiment. Better yet, because Internet usage caught on at different times in different states, it offers 50 natural experiments." The results, according to a study by Clemson University professor Todd Kendall, indicate that a 10 percent increase in Internet access yielded around a 7.3 percent decrease in reported rapes, with states that had greater Internet access seeing the largest and fastest declines.

Still, as Landsburg points out, how do we know the Web use-rape link is connected to porn? Maybe online gaming, sports chat rooms or other male-dominated sites are in fact catching the attention of potential rapists. Kendall responds to this argument by offering murder rates; while the data consistently ties increased Internet use to decreased rapes, no such correlation exists for homicides.

porn is about sex (even if there's only one person in front of the screen)

rape is never about sex. it's about power. it's about violence.

the two are not related, unless the porn in question shows rape scenes.

repeat as often as necessary: rape is not about sex. rape is not about sex.

I agree. That is what I have also read.

The study makes an argument otherwise.

http://www.law.stanford.edu/display/images...20+%20paper.pdf

look, Tomasino, your source appears to be a students term paper. a student of economics, no less.
now there's a field that deals with rape and the human mind on a daily basis

assuming you've been to university, would you be happy to be quoted with the shite you wrote under a deadline when you were 21?

let's just leave it, it's a load of bollocks. a very dear friend of mine was raped and is still trying to cope with it. so I know a little bit about therapy and background. guess you can't know it all unless you've been there.

non-violent porn is about wanking, not about raping.

your source is not a study but a piece of academic collateral damage, not published in a peer-reviewd paper, just internet junk.

sorry if I sound harsh. nothing personal.

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