More data driven science on how Porn can be beneficial to people and their relationships.

[Warren DeMontague]

39. It is extremely telling...

the invisi-think tank works overtime for a day or two, scrambling on this, and this is the BEST they can come up with:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125520748

Okay, first off- this is the Lebanon times (That is Lebanon, the Country, not Lebanon, Ohio) sourcing the Daily Mail.... or claiming to?

Really?

But apparently, somewhere, at some time, in some unknown country, there may have been a judge who may have said a 15 yr. old's rapist did what he did because of porn.

Proving... something.

Now, as for the so-called "science". For starts, there's this line from the "one angry girl" blog:

know this isn't true, because despite the phenomenal growth of all kinds of porn during the last few decades, reported rapes have increased 500% since 1960

REALLY. 500%? Wow, that's astounding. Amazing. Must mean something HUGE. One can only assume that they are cherry-picking data from places like the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting tool:

http://www.ucrdatatool.gov

Now, of course, the US Population in general has essentially doubled since 1960, so there's been a 200% increase in just how many people there are, period. But that UCR data tool tells us some other interesting things, for one, that the rape rate peaked in 1992 and has declined since, by approx. 20% since then. Which must mean, if Porn--->Rape, that there's, what, 20% less porn in society than there was in 1992?

Except, 1992 was prior to the culutral smutty internetificaiton of internetificated culture smuttiness... Hmmmm.. Odd.

And that 'reported rape' number gets tossed out the window when it doesn't fit the narrative, invoking conspiracies by the Feds to drive the numbers down (presumably, to protect Larry Flynt and cover up the fact that porno is generating phalanxes of rapists) ... still, it doesn't work both ways- if the increase since 1960 has something to do with "porn" (which didn't really hit the cultural zeitgeist until the early 70s, but who's counting) then the DECLINE since 1992 must also have something to do with the easy availability of porn, which went through the roof after the internet came into being.

My answer is, neither is related- porn, again, has zip diddly squat to do with rape.

The "science" studies quoted are spurious, at best- and typical examples of the sort of shoddy "research" which passes for anti-porn science.

Essentially studies like "we interviewed 40 nose-pickers. 80% of those nose pickers had admitted to wearing hats in the past month. Obviously, hat-wearing has an influence on nose-picking behavior"