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This has been studied with pornography and sex crimes and it seems like there are two main findings. People who consume more pornography and more violent porno
by JamesBarney 8y ago
This has been studied with pornography and sex crimes and it seems like there are two main findings.
People who consume more pornography and more violent pornography tend to be more violent people.
And when societies are exposed to more pornography the number of sex crimes stays the same or drops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_pornography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_pornography
- dragonsngoblins 8y ago"People who consume more pornography and more violent pornography tend to be more violent people." I feel like this is probably correlation than causation. It seems obvious to me that people who want to be violent are more likely to both fantasise about it and commit it. Further consuming any sort of vice to degrees well past the norm (pornography, alcohol, drugs, food, sex, video games, etc.) seems likely to be a sign of poor impulse control, which obviously means they are more likely to just be violent when they feel like it. When taken with the fact that overall pornography exposure within a culture seems to either not impact or reduce the amount of sex crime I'd argue that desire to do thing causes both fantasies and increased likelihood of doing that thing.