I like to call it "suprise sex" -- rape seems like a harsh term:
On June 19, David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post (?Statistics Show Drop in U.S. Rape Cases?) reported that according to ?federal crime data? [specifically, National Crime Victimization Study (NCVS) data] the number of rapes per capita ?plunged more than 85% since the 1970s.? He continued, ?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.? In his June 29 column (?Tide turns against rape?but why??) the Chicago Tribune?s Steve Chapman asserted that the NCVS data ?thoroughly demolished? one theory about the causes of rape ? namely, ?that pornography leads inexorably to sexual abuse of women and children.? He continued ?But while hard-core raunch has proliferated, sexual assaults have not. Could it be that pornography prevents rape??
MIM president Robert Peters wrote an article responding to Chapman?s column. Mark Kernes, Senior Legal Editor at Adult Video News, then responded to Mr. Peters with his own article, ?Morality in Media Chief Needs a Science Lesson.? Mr. Peters has now expanded on his article (?Could it be that pornography prevents rape??), which is published at the
www.ObscenityCrimes.org Porn Problem & Solutions page.
Mr. Peters' expanded article states, in part:
?If the predominant effect of pornography were cathartic, sexual abuse of children should in large measure ?be history,? because never before has so much child porn, ?pseudo child porn,? and teen porn been so readily available. Instead, we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars yearly to combat sexual abuse of children. And every day, all across America, children and adults are being arrested for molesting a child or attempting to molest a ?child? who turns out to be a law enforcement agent.
?According to data from the FBI?s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)... the number of ?forcible rapes? actually increased?from 1972 to 2004...[I]t defies the imagination how one measure (NCVS) points to an 85% decline in ?forcible rape,? while another measure (UCR) points to an increase of over 40%.
?Common sense should inform us that when persons feed their minds on pornography that exploits and degrades women or depicts violence against them, their sexual ?appetites? can become warped...Research also indicates there is a causal relationship between pornography and sexual violence... There is also a mountain of anecdotal evidence showing that pornography is linked to violent sexual crimes.
?Even were we to assume that there is less ?forcible rape? today...and that the increase in promiscuity and proliferation of pornography contributed to the decline ? after all who needs rape when you can have sex whenever you want and who needs women when porn is so accessible and affordable...does anyone in their right mind think promiscuity and pornography are good things and should be encouraged??
Read the full article at
www.ObscenityCrimes.org
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