RE: The effect of increasing sexualization of women in the media
June 10, 2013 at 5:19 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2013 at 5:22 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
(May 6, 2013 at 11:02 pm)Ryantology Wrote: Showing tits on TV causes men to rape women, and more misogynist rapist-apology nonsense, tonight at 11.
That's actually what anti-porn advocates want you to think. Here in Kansas they tried to get a law passed where if there was a sex crime, other violent crime, or domestic disturbance, law enforcement officers would be required to note if any "pornography" were present. The problem is that "pornography" was defined in such loose terms that even a picture of classic paintings such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus or a DVD of just about any Hollywood movie with a nude scene would be classified as pornography. The intent was to collect (and inflate) statistics on pornography found at crime scenes so that anti-porn advocates could point to these statistics and say "See? Wherever there's pornography there is crime!" Of course the statistics don't tell you if the "porn" has any at all relation to the crime or how much pornography is being viewed where crime isn't occurring. It's all about asserting correlation = causation.
Luckily the bill was defeated, which was actually surprising to me. But be real skeptical the next time you hear pornography/crime correlation statistics.
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