Reply #326: And sexual assaults have declined. [View All]

[caseymoz]

Either that, or women and others have been reporting far fewer than have been happening. It's hard to argue that it causes violence against women when the extreme spike you'd expect with the Internet never happened, in fact, sexual assaults have declined. That's not just true of the United States. You could see reported sexual assaults decline in countries where the Internet was introduced. You could even trace it in some to the very year it was introduced.

In fact, it's hard to argue that a campaign against porn is a high priority at all, other than the fact that it offends most women. Or you could call for it because it's degrading to pornstars, even though few have ever joined the effort. Given the fact that the most women most against porn have deep contempt for the pornstars, it's going to be hard for antiporn crusaders to say they're helping exploited women with a straight face, much less expect others to take it seriously. No, not only will there be no concerted, significantly large effort against porn, the women calling against it most could end up more marginalized than the porn.

Or, another way to gather a strong crusade, they could simply lie about it, or cite studies by others lying about it, which is the current antiporn strategy.

The real problem? I think most women find male sexuality to be disturbing or downright disgusting, at least as far as heterosexual males are concerned. They'd rather not know about it. Worse, I think perhaps nature meant it to be that way.