More Porn=Less Rape

It's from the report madant. Or are you now going to say the report you posted is somehow wrong?

You forget that a lot of people who watch porn imagine they are the ones on the screen. As an observer they begin to imagine what it would feel like to be like that. Do you think they find it arousing because they have "no power"? Imagination plays a huge role madant.

Rapists sometimes think their victim 'enjoyed' the experience, even though she was beating at his head, screaming "no".. "stop" and "help".

 

As madant stated, we cannot know how porn affects unreported cases of rape, because they are unreported and thus, cannot be verified. The report also states correctly that unreported rapes have a tendency to be because the victim knew the assailant. We simply cannot know whether pornography would reduce rapes across the board. For example, do you think a husband who beats up his wife and then rapes her because she did not have dinner on the table at a specified time would choose to go to his computer and watch some porn instead? How about the guy who is refused on a date? Do you think he would just go home and watch some porn to allay his frustration and anger?

I meant it was "in part" irrelevant to this particular discussion, since the study is only on reported rapes. As the author of the reports states, unreported rapes go unreported for a variety of reasons and thus "more porn = less rape" cannot really be verified in such instances.

Of course not. But you have made some assumptions based on the report you have posted. The report does not support your assumptions. Rape is not just about sex. It is also about power and the need and desire to control another with fear, violence and terror. Rape is about subjugating the victim to the attacker's whim.

So does more porn mean less rape? In some instances, probably yes. In others no. As I said to Xev, do you think an abusive husband would choose to go to his computer for sexual gratification than to beat and rape his wife? Somehow I doubt it.

Pornography is about imagination. And for some, they wish to carry that imagination out into the real world. For others, they are satisfied by masturbating to porn and imagining themselves in the position of one of the actors on the screen. I am sure that some do stay home and 'wank' instead of going out and foisting themselves upon a victim. In that, it probably has reduced some instances of rape.

 

I said could be skewed.

Not all do. Some get so pissed they just beat the living crap out of her and then violently rape her to show her who's boss. Control and over powering the victim. I'm not saying those who watch porn go out and plunder the womenfolk. Nor am I saying that all men who watch porn beat and rape their wives. Some do. Seeing the majority who watch porn are teenage boys, most of them have probably never had sex before.

The 13 year old son of my husband's friend was caught watching internet porn by his mother. As she said to us afterwards, it is not that she caught him in the act but that he was just too damn stupid to clear the history and cookies after he'd finished. When she and her husband went into some of the sites he had gone into, they noticed just about every single one of them involved a rape type scene. Which then left her husband in the unenviable position of having to explain to said 13 year old what he saw on the net was not what it was like in real life. Does that mean that instead of watching porn he may have been out raping and plundering the womenfolk of his neighbourhood? I doubt it. As I said before, most who watch porn do not rape. Some, however do. This study was based on the figures shown by law enforcement agencies and the correlation was taken to the amount of internet usage around the US. In that, it does raise some questions.

No it does not. But it does beg for further study.

Some are extremely violent. Some are not. Some are just down right cheesy and others are just bleh. Porn is about fantasy and it caters for a variety of tastes.

 

This thread is not about whether internet porn is a factor or cause in rapes. This thread asks whether more porn does equal less rape, as a study has found a correlation in the increased use of internet porn and a decrease in reported rapes.

 

Well the report, on which this thread is based, does state there is a correlation in the increased access of the internet and internet porn and a decrease in the number of reported rapes.