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ismnotwasm

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2. That's why I feel the premise is ridiculous
Sun Feb 15, 2015, 02:32 PM
Feb 2015

And using the term "causation" for rape reduction because of increased porn availability is simplistic as well as ridiculous.

People who brag about their IQ, and have or claim familarity with multifactorial causes in any other topic creep me out when they dummy down about sexual assault.

I was looking at stats, the number of unreported rapes is high and can't be included in the total as well as being technically an unknown number. That most studies are done on college students is disturbing but understandable, lots of studies are done with college students, as they are an available reachable resource --the problem of course being an automatic reduction in diversity.

There are studies showing two outcomes as far as pornography, an increase in willingness to rape and no change at all as shown in questionnaires after viewing different types of Pornagraphy. I didn't see any one I consider credible for reduction. The flaws in these studies should be obvious. Yet they are waved around like the holy grail. Stupid.

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