> That would be my guess too. IMO, rape is a two part problem- power play and > sexual-inactivity. > Imagine a place where hormones start raging at 13 years of age BUT then you > have to wait another 15 years (when you get married) to be able to do > anything about it. We live in that world.
Isn't rape nearly all about power and very little about the sexual act? Stopping or showing of porn is unlikely to deter a rapist. http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3925/myths.html > Pornography is a healthy outlet for a repressed society. Banning it will > only entail illegal 'blue films' which will further exacerbate the problem > (Because what we see on tv highly influences how we act.) IMHO, porn is healthy - as sex is - and we should actually not just un-ban porn, we should un-ban prostitution as well. But a Dan Ariely study showed that people tend to make bad judgements when sexually aroused. (http://www.econ.brown.edu/econ/sthesis/AnnePapers/Anne25.html has a summary) Such as "When aroused, participants were more likely to take a women to a fancy restaurant, say he loves her when he does not, get his date drunk, keep trying after she says no and use a drug in order to procure sex.". There are no easy answers...
