Months ago, I presented a series of studies showing a strong correlation between pornography and, among other things, sexual violence against women. I wasn't able to prove my case because, hypothetically, some character trait in certain men might make them more likely both to view pornography and to commit acts of sexual violence. However, I now have proof that pornography
causes men to be more violent towards women. Read this carefully:
Research conducted on subjects (usually male college students) in carefully controlled laboratory settings has provided some support for this assessment of violent pornography, but less support for the commission’s conclusions about nonviolent degrading pornography. To isolate the influence of different factors, experimenters typically expose groups of men to one of four types of films: violent and sexually explicit, violent but not sexually explicit, sexually explicit but not violent, and neither sexually explicit nor violent. After exposure to the films, experimenters often measure subjects’ aggression by testing their willingness to administer simulated shocks to a female colleague of the researchers.
Studies indicate that men who viewed films that were both violent and sexually explicit recorded the highest levels of aggression,
followed by those who viewed sexually explicit but nonviolent films. Men record the highest levels of aggression after viewing pornography that portrays women as being sexually aroused by the violence perpetrated against them.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_...rnography.html
Therefore, non-violent pornography encourages violence against women more even than portrayals of non-sexual violence against women. Case closed. Mere imprisonment would be useless in attempting to end such a (sadly) high demand "business" as pornography. I support- and I won't back down from this- government castration of any man who manufactures, sells or distributes pornography or who operates a place of live pornographic material. You can call me authoritarian if you want to. I care more about victimized women than I do about pornographers. If you don't, re-think your priorities. As for those who claim I think women are "delicate flowers" (which I don't), I take pride in the fact that Catharine MacKinnon has had the same insults leveled against her by phony libertarian "feminists". If you think that pornography should be legal, you support a sexist ideology.