Wasn’t there a study done about how rates of sexual assault dropped in counties in proportion to home internet access, when the internet was becoming a thing? The hypothesis being, giving violent people access to free internet porn reduced their desire to assault others quite so much. I feel like this could generalize?
I’m sure there’s a case to be made, and my intuitions map yours, as I remember another study suggesting that countries with legal access to sex workers reduces incidences of sexual assault.
However, we know of opposing psychological frameworks like the porn desensitisation pipeline, and seeking increasingly hardcore porn over time.
Thats not to imply that exposure to porn is turning people into pedophiles, but there are a subset of people who are predisposed to reckless behaviour, and that’s not even mentioning the delusional plotlines hentai normalises about rape victims eventually loving it, and how those perspectives can influence thought patterns of those who are more suggestible.
Ehhhhh… The question isn’t if such people exist, but in what proportion. They’re saying, by reference to other sexual behaviors being legalized/illegalized, that it appears that the majority is relief valve.
OFC we cannot say for certainty without multiple studies, but they’re saying it seems like the proportions skew in favor of relief valve, even across cultures.
I agree with them. The intuition seems to be relief valve, whether or not there would be a reduction in offenses.
However, I do not think normalizing the sexualization of children would help society in the long run. Sure, pedos should not be made completely taboo, or else there won’t be help available. Sure, if you thought lgbtq people were similarly ‘bad’, you would say the same things about them…
… BUT kids will never, practically by definition, NEVER be intellectually or emotionally mature enough to justify pedo, whereas informed, consenting adults doing what they want in private is perfectly fine.
Wasn’t there a study done about how rates of sexual assault dropped in counties in proportion to home internet access, when the internet was becoming a thing? The hypothesis being, giving violent people access to free internet porn reduced their desire to assault others quite so much. I feel like this could generalize?
I’m sure there’s a case to be made, and my intuitions map yours, as I remember another study suggesting that countries with legal access to sex workers reduces incidences of sexual assault.
However, we know of opposing psychological frameworks like the porn desensitisation pipeline, and seeking increasingly hardcore porn over time.
Thats not to imply that exposure to porn is turning people into pedophiles, but there are a subset of people who are predisposed to reckless behaviour, and that’s not even mentioning the delusional plotlines hentai normalises about rape victims eventually loving it, and how those perspectives can influence thought patterns of those who are more suggestible.
The very same argument can be made for violence in media too though. imo it’s the exact same discussion as “do video games cause violence”
Ehhhhh… The question isn’t if such people exist, but in what proportion. They’re saying, by reference to other sexual behaviors being legalized/illegalized, that it appears that the majority is relief valve.
OFC we cannot say for certainty without multiple studies, but they’re saying it seems like the proportions skew in favor of relief valve, even across cultures.
I agree with them. The intuition seems to be relief valve, whether or not there would be a reduction in offenses.
However, I do not think normalizing the sexualization of children would help society in the long run. Sure, pedos should not be made completely taboo, or else there won’t be help available. Sure, if you thought lgbtq people were similarly ‘bad’, you would say the same things about them…
… BUT kids will never, practically by definition, NEVER be intellectually or emotionally mature enough to justify pedo, whereas informed, consenting adults doing what they want in private is perfectly fine.