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I imagine this is something that has been studied extensively, what good/bad o outcomes are known from societies that do/don't allow porn?
by jackmott42 3y ago
I imagine this is something that has been studied extensively, what good/bad o outcomes are known from societies that do/don't allow porn?
- threeseed 3y agoI imagine it's hard to study since you need to find two countries with similar socio-economic status, rights of women, attitudes towards marriage, rape etc but that have opposite opinions on pornography.
- myrryr 3y agoThe point is the banning of porn is part of the mess which is around socio-economic status, rights of women, attitudes towards marriage, rape etc. It is ok to not have to differentiate them, since mostly you are after a correlation between the different underlaying attitudes. The banning of porn is a symptom - it is a sign of the attitudes, and you can EASILY test against that.
- Arnt 3y agoIf the countries are more similar, the results have higher precision. If less, then lower precision. Such things have been done. I remember a study discussed on HN where they used the same neighbourhoods before/after a change of law. That wasn't porn though, I think it was strip clubs, and the result was something like "when a strip club opens in an area that had none before, the number of sexual assaults in the vicinity decreases by a few per cent".
- salemh 3y ago[dead]
- FrankyZunim 3y ago[flagged]
- ben_w 3y agoFrom the stats I've seen, the only recent change to transgender rates is female-to-male, which is the exact opposite of autogynephilia, increasing. Also, the absolute numbers are tiny, so it's not an "epidemic" by any measure. If you'd just focused on addiction and escalation of weirdness, you might have a point. Possibly. Not my field, but it's at least not as implausible as your chosen bug-bear.