Porn increases sexual and overall satisfaction. No such cause and effect has been demonstrated with any negative consequence."Ģ. He concluded, "If anything, there is an inverse causal relationship between an increase in pornography and sex crimes. And to get rape rates as low as porn-saturated 20, you’ve got to go back to the 1970s.”įurthermore, in a 2009 paper published in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Milton Diamond reviewed a broad number of studies that have explored the supposed ill effects of pornography. “There is no more extreme or pernicious act of using and abusing women as sexual objects rather than treating them as humans. In fact, as pornography’s accessibility has exploded (from 1990 or so), sexual assault rates have gone down - by 55% in the last 20 years, according to the National Crime Victim Survey. Can we really say that porn is the cause of this objectification? Is it leading to more widespread abuse? Or is something deeper at play?Īccording to the Atlantic, the ubiquitousness of porn has correlated with a drastic decline in sexual abuse toward women. But let’s not forget that we have treated women like objects for CENTURIES, long before cheerleaders began having frolicsome locker room orgies.
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Who knows? I’m just a table who somehow knows how to type. Let’s, as they might say in a porn, go deep.ġ. What, if any, are the ways that porn is good for us? It remains to be seen what kind of long-term impacts porn will have on us (and the upcoming smartphone generations who now have 24/7 access to porn), but little is said about porn’s redeeming benefits. Some say porn negatively affects men’s feelings toward women, leads to affairs and addiction, and can even adversely impact users’ attention span and memory. Perhaps a telling example of this is that I typed “porn is” into Google and this was the only suggestion:
These days, we can’t throw a nipple clamp out of a window without it landing on a study claiming porn is ruining humanity in some way (and probably condemning you for littering). There’s no question that porn gets a lot of things wrong about sex. This article originally appeared on AlterNet