🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Aug5.203822.428@cbnews.cb.att.com> (oh.general,misc.legal), lvc@cbnews.cb.att.com (Larry Cipriani) writes:
> 
> Are you referring to research done primarily by Neil Malamuth
> and Ed Donnerstein ?
> 
> The obvious problems with the evidence to date (and there are
> several studies out there) is that they are correlational.
> Thus, as much you would like to get us to buy the idea that
> "porn causes rape,"  it is equally possible that rapists merely
> buy pornography to affirm their views.  In slightly more direct
> terminology, it is true that all rapists are pornography collectors
> (this is not widely known).  However, NOT ALL PORNOGRAPHY COLLECTORS
> ARE RAPISTS.
> 
> As for "desensitization" studies, let's have your references.

What's more important to learn is who is funding these studies.  About
as objective as the studies funded showing that smoking is not harmful.