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I 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
by threeseed 4y ago
I 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 4y 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 4y 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".