Stetson University Researcher Says Porn Does Not Cause Violent Sex Crimes
“During the past few years, many states have declared that pornography is a public health crisis,” said Ferguson. “Dr. Hartley and I were curious to see if evidence could support such claims, at least in regard to sexual aggression, or whether politicians were mistaking moral stances for science. Our evidence suggests that policy makers should examine other causes of sexual aggression, and that beliefs about pornography may be driven more by methodological mistakes than sound science.”
State legislators will have no truck with the facts! Policies are based on fear-mongering to increase re-election odds!
No, I don’t believe that pornography (X-Rated Videos) leads to sexual violence.
However, this IS what pornography does:
a) It poisons and corrupts the human mind and CAN influence you to do sexual acts and perversions that otherwise you would never have done!
b) It is VERY addictive.
If this were not true, then why do people buy it or rent it prolifically and why is it a multi-billion dollar industry??
c) Much of it is a perversion of nature!
Almost all people view the act of intimacy belongs between one man and one woman-not multiple partners engaged in all out orgies.
d) It turns the act of intimate contact between a man and a woman into a raunchy, filthy impersonal act of lust with no emotional meaning or feeling whatsoever and cheapens the act of sex to ZERO!
Those people in those movies are all actors making big bucks off of other people’s sexual lusts who in their hearts are playing out the roles of those in the movie and like any other addiction, it has destroyed many marriages and families.
There are probably people who are going to ‘Troll’ me on this, but I don’t care.
No question that pornography does these things. But the observation that adult pornography does NOT lead to sexual assault specifically, is important. If not debunked, that notion would give enterprising politicians more reasons to fine and jail people.
As a person Celebrating Recovery from Pornography Addiction and Sexual Addiction I am glad to see this report from Stetson University. I am not ashamed to admit that I am attending Celebrate Recovery and Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings. The viewing of pornography is Only a Moral Delimna and a Public Health Issue Only in Regards to Sexual Addiction and NOT in Regards to Sexual Criminality. Even Edwin Meese the United States Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan back in 1986 in The Meese Report (named for Edwin Meese), officially the Final Report of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meese_Report talked about the harmful effects of pornography in the addictive sense and not the criminal sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_addiction So according to this report from Stetson University the viewing of pornography never ever leads to rape/sexual assault/sexual battery. Again pornography is an addiction issue and a moral issue and not a criminal issue.
Thanks guys. These political authorities are running out of ways to make new laws for their ‘pat on the back’ statuses and re-election perks, so they are inventing every possible way to keep making new laws that, in the public eye, could seemingly cause the crime rate to go up, but they have NO evidence it does.
They use every tactic possible to instill public fear to stay in office, and well, they are running out of ideas.
This is only going to get worse until it gets so ridiculous that it’s going to backfire and generate sympathy by the people and the courts.
The courts and the people, praise God, are already beginning to see the nonsense behind the registry and the laws surrounding it.
This is all ‘Legislation without representation’.
Joseph, thanks for separating the legal from the moral/spiritual. Most persons employed in the criminal justice system can’t seem to do that. Prosecutors in particular are guilty of intentionally blending and evolving hybrid terms, such as “grooming,” which initially had rational usage in the courts. However it now seems to include any normal act of kindness or friendliness, but only if done by an accused.
Viewing pornography, even child pornography, is not a crime of violence–at least in the federal system. This was affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 when it held the “residual clause” of 18 USC 16(b) to be unconstitutionally vague. Granted the Dimaya case did not involve porn, but the legal principle applies.
Unfortunately, Congress muddied the waters when it wrote the sentencing statutes wherein it defined a crime of violence to include any child pornography offense (see 18 USC 3156(a)(4)(C)). Although this applies ONLY to sentencing, prosecutors will attempt to use this reference in a general context. If a defense attorney misses it, too bad, so sad.
Since some forms of pornography have legal as well as spiritual dimensions, it is imperative that terminology be used accurately and in context.
Veritas.
What we are doing is not working: trying to take care of one form of violence by using a different form of violence, keeping in mind that today the word violence includes a whole list of things that it did not twenty years ago. I realize that many registrants do not even come close to the types of perpetrators referred to in this article, but it is worth reading as it presents a good argument for restorative justice:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/defund-police-movement-could-offer-sexual-assault-survivors-different-path-n1235478
I want to inject my 2 cents here during the 70’s and early 80’s when Ted Bundy was committing serials of murders,, Several pysch doctors interview him
He made a statement “Pornography can reach in and snatch the kid out of any house today,” he said. “It snatched me out of my home.” now every other doctor tried to out write the other doctor and this is how the crap go blown out of context and the rest of us suffer because of another’s doing