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Do you have any reason to believe people are actually looking to porn as some sort of instruction manual? Rates of rape (at least in the US) have fallen dramat
by tsotha 14y ago
Do you have any reason to believe people are actually looking to porn as some sort of instruction manual? Rates of rape (at least in the US) have fallen dramatically over the last two decades, which isn't something you'd expect if men see porn as an information resource.
- vacri 14y agoPeople do tend to imitate what they see. Certainly it's not set in stone and there are always counterexamples, but overall, the trend is to mimic observed behaviour - hence the idea of things like 'leading by example'. That being said, there's a lot of different types of porn. Saying "I watch porn" is like saying "I read fiction". It certainly tells us a bit about you, but isn't particularly definitive - do you read lightweight trash like Dan Brown, do you prefer mysteries, bodice-rippers, fantasies, war novels, or the complexities of writers like Eco? Perhaps a little bit of everything depending on the mood?
- Surio 14y agohttp://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/02/gail-dines-pornography http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jul/02/gail-dine...
- tsotha 14y agoAnd yet the statistics have a steep drop in sexual violence that roughly coincides with the introduction of the internet.