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Originally Posted by xxxjay
On June 19, the Washington Post ("Statistics Show Drop in U.S. Rape Cases") reported that the number of rapes per capita "has plunged more than 85% since the 1970s." Noting that the data came from the Justice Department?s National Crime Victimization Study, the Post article said, "Many?say that these numbers could be a statistical mirage?others say they have been convinced that...a devastating crime has been receding from American life."
The Chicago Tribune?s Steve Chapman is among those who believe there is improvement; but in a June 29 column ("Tide turns against rape-but why?") Chapman took it one step further by asserting that the survey data have "thoroughly demolished" the theory "that pornography leads inexorably to sexual abuse of women and children." Chapman continued, "But while hard-core raunch has proliferated, sexual assaults have not. Could it be that pornography prevents rape?"
Robert Peters responds with an unequivocal, "No!"
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So Robert Peters should have a look at a scientific study done in Scandinavia when they legalized sexually explicit material. The study ran over a couple of years and prooved that rape and other sexual cases went down related to legalization. So sometimes itīs worth reading such studies.
http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/p...kutchinsky.pdf