That's so stupid. Rape isn't about sex, it's about power. Rapists don't rape because they're sex starved, they do it because they're power-hungry deviants.
I believe that if there were no such thing as pornography, then there would be a lot less rapes. Pornography for some is like a gateway to rape.
It's bad all around. And ultimately, people who use porn to gratify themselves are pathetic.
Pointing this out again:
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/chunter/porn_effects.htmlWhile it does list many negative effects, it does point out this:
CatharsisAt first, it may seem odd to place catharsis under the heading of "powerful effects." After all catharsis studies generally show that pornography prevents harmful effects like rape and other sex crimes. From this, one might argue that catharsis proves the "limited effects" of pornography. A better way to think of catharsis is as a powerful "limiting effect" against sexually deviant behavior. Therefore, it is properly referred to as a powerful effect.
A number of cathartic effects have been found for pornography, but perhaps the most widely cited is the so called "Danish experience." In the 1960's Denmark experienced a "porno wave", but rather than censoring this content, in 1967 the government lifted all restriction on pornography (save a 16 year old age limit for purchasing porn). Yet rather than experiencing a wave of sex crimes as some had predicted, sex crimes actually declined. For example, Kutchinsky (1970; 1985; 1987; 1991) found that from 1965 to 1982 sex crimes against children declined from 30 per 100,000 in '65 to about 5 per 100,000 in '82. Similar evidence is found for rape rates. Kutchinsky concludes that this is likely the effect of pornography providing potential sex offenders an alternate means of sexual satisfaction, most likely through masturbation.
Another example of a nation with high amounts of pornography yet low sex crime rates is Japan. As Abramson and Hayashi (1984) have found, pornography in Japan is often featured in general interest newspapers and magazines, and can be seen on prime time television. Not only is porn widely available but much of its adult content depicts the bondage and rape of young women. "In fact, one of the best ways to ensure the success of a Japanese adult film is to include the bondage and rape of a young woman (Abramson and Hayashi, 1984: p. 178)." Despite this, Japan's rape rate is roughly 14 times lower than that of the U.S.'s (2.4 rapes per 100,000 in Japan compared to 34.5 in the U.S.). This discrepancy can not be explained by variance in laws, or Japanese women's reluctance to report rape. Instead, the
Japanese view the availability of such stimuli as a cathartic valve. It is presumed to provide vicarious satisfaction of a socially unacceptable behavior. In a culture that endorses strict codes of behavior and highly defined roles, the depiction of rape also provides a context in which Japanese men can vicariously abandon all of the explicit signposts of good behavior. (p. 182).Continuing with international evidence, Faust (1982) studied countries with the most and least equality achieved between men and women. She found that in nations like the U.S. and the Scandinavian countries which highly value women's equality, pornography was widely available. In contrast, in countries repressive towards women, like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the former Soviet Union, little or no pornography was available.
Another cathartic effect for pornography is found in data about child sex offenders and rapists. Child sex offenders have been shown to have had very little, if any exposure to pornography (Byrne and Kelley, 1984; Faust, 1982). Evidence has also shown that a majority of rapists come from sexually repressive family backgrounds (Goldstein and Kant, 1973; Byrne and Kelley, 1984).
In all of these cases, the cathartic effect of pornography is believed due to a substitution effect, by which potential sex offenders receive sexual gratification from pornographic content, rather than from criminal acts against individuals.
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