If I had to guess at a reason, it is presumably because cohorts of socially undeveloped adult men are sexually sedated by porn and are less motivated to rape.
It simply isn't about protecting kids. The sources aren't entirely reliable, but it is plausible that the head of government even hid the problem of children getting raped by migrants to "not rock the boat". Not sure how much of that is true, but I don't see the ability to take responsibility to protect kids here if political convenience is that important.
I'm not a psychologist but some of these extrapolations seem insane to me.
> Using Czech police records, American and Czech researchers compared rape rates in the Czech Republic for the 17 years before porn was legalized with rates during the 18 years after. Rapes decreased from 800 a year to 500. More porn, less rape.
> In addition, the legalization of porn was associated with a decrease in another despicable sex crime, child sexual abuse. Under Communism, arrests for child sex abuse averaged 2,000 a year. After porn became legal, the figure dropped by more than half to fewer than 1,000. More porn, fewer sex crimes.
The country's entire foundation shifted from underneath it; an empire collapsed around it. How could they possibly isolate the legalisation of pornography specifically as the cause of decreased rape? Why not the legalisation of private enterprise? Is it not feasible that living in a repressive, controlled, surveilled society caused men unrest?
Perhaps the studies cited went into more detail, but "Lots of rape in 1985, less rape in 2005. Porn was legalised between then, ergo porn caused this." does NOT convince me.
Also, if 'sexual sedation' were a premise you'd propose as having some societal-level impact you'd start very quickly getting into other effects, many of which might not be desirable.
Maybe it's for the best. I think new generations are way too passive. We've been trained to live our lives passively and vicariously... Engaging in the cheapest possible alternatives to various life experiences, quantity over quality.
Or countries with higher access to porn have lower reporting on their sexual assault stats.
Sexual assault and abuse are one of the most unreliable stats in the world because there are so many disincentives to report.
Further, it’s also a foolish stat to compare across jurisdictions because what constitutes sexual assault and abuse is wildly different across jurisdictions.
These stats tend to punish the countries that have the best environments to reduce sexual abuse and assault because they will also have the highest reporting.
This is useless as the Brit will just use VPN's/Tor or anything else connected to US servers where the main language interface will be 100% the same. This will just give free money to US services and probably generate a big hole in the UK economy. I remind you all that porn does far more money than tons of services. They were pioneers on online commerce with credit cards.
People can tell otherwise, but these services are widely used by the population in disguise, from both women and men.
It's interesting that simple Javascript can be used by e.g PornHub to predict VPN usage by Brits: "What is the browser's timezone, and what is it's language?"
If the connection is coming from New York, but the browser says it's UTC+1 and en_GB...
OgsyedIE|6 months ago
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601...
If I had to guess at a reason, it is presumably because cohorts of socially undeveloped adult men are sexually sedated by porn and are less motivated to rape.
raxxorraxor|6 months ago
heavensteeth|6 months ago
> Using Czech police records, American and Czech researchers compared rape rates in the Czech Republic for the 17 years before porn was legalized with rates during the 18 years after. Rapes decreased from 800 a year to 500. More porn, less rape.
> In addition, the legalization of porn was associated with a decrease in another despicable sex crime, child sexual abuse. Under Communism, arrests for child sex abuse averaged 2,000 a year. After porn became legal, the figure dropped by more than half to fewer than 1,000. More porn, fewer sex crimes.
The country's entire foundation shifted from underneath it; an empire collapsed around it. How could they possibly isolate the legalisation of pornography specifically as the cause of decreased rape? Why not the legalisation of private enterprise? Is it not feasible that living in a repressive, controlled, surveilled society caused men unrest?
Perhaps the studies cited went into more detail, but "Lots of rape in 1985, less rape in 2005. Porn was legalised between then, ergo porn caused this." does NOT convince me.
catigula|6 months ago
Also, if 'sexual sedation' were a premise you'd propose as having some societal-level impact you'd start very quickly getting into other effects, many of which might not be desirable.
jongjong|6 months ago
hshdhdhj4444|6 months ago
Sexual assault and abuse are one of the most unreliable stats in the world because there are so many disincentives to report.
Further, it’s also a foolish stat to compare across jurisdictions because what constitutes sexual assault and abuse is wildly different across jurisdictions.
These stats tend to punish the countries that have the best environments to reduce sexual abuse and assault because they will also have the highest reporting.
anthk|6 months ago
People can tell otherwise, but these services are widely used by the population in disguise, from both women and men.
nurettin|6 months ago
derr1|6 months ago
netsharc|6 months ago
If the connection is coming from New York, but the browser says it's UTC+1 and en_GB...
Denatonium|6 months ago
pk-protect-ai|6 months ago