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KitSileya

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1. You know, the idea that the ubiquity of porn is the reason that there are less reported rapes
Sun Feb 15, 2015, 02:14 PM
Feb 2015

is faulty reasoning. Without research, how can we know? Just looking at the rape stats, and then looking at how much porn there is, doesn't mean that more porn means less rape. Perhaps the long, slow slog feminists have done to make rape unacceptable, to make it more acceptable for victims to report or seek help, the campaigns to change cultural views on rape would have been even more successful if at the same time, porn had become less accessible. Who knows? Weren't porn films less objectifying of women before? Less violent? Perhaps today's standard portrayal of women in porn is directly working against awareness campaigns and other attempts to change our culture, only the the attempts are more successful at lowering the number of rapes than the desensitization of porn viewers towards viewing women as humans is at increasing the number.

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