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Old 10-12-2009, 10:39 AM  
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I think you need to do the backpeddling ;)

http://www.slate.com/id/2152487
How the Web Prevents Rape
All that Internet porn reduces sex crimes. Really.
By Steven E. LandsburgPosted Monday, Oct. 30, 2006, at 2:22 PM ET

Does pornography breed rape? Do violent movies breed violent crime? Quite the opposite, it seems.

First, porn. What happens when more people view more of it? 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 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.
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. At best there is a minor correlation, and that's giving his study the benefit of the doubt. In reality, he's looking for someone to blame. Next time find a credible article. This is like sending me someone's blog and telling me "its true!"
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