Pornography, especially violent variants, furthers rape culture...
http://www.socialcostsofpornography.com/Layden_Pornography_and_Violence.pdfis part of the sexual template.
In other words, pornography makes violence sexy.
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Sexual violence attitudes lead to an increased likelihood of violent sexual behavior.
Some studies have looked at likelihood measures while other studies have looked at actual
(self-reported) behaviors.
Pornography can start to cross the line between thought and behavior in the kinds
of fantasies that can produce an erection. One study exposed males to an arousing rape or
non-rape presentation and then asked them to try to reach as high a level of sexual arousal
as they could without any direct stimulation of the penis. In doing so, those who had been
exposed to the rape presentation created more sexually violent fantasies than those
exposed to the non-rape presentation. For these males, rape fantasies were now part of
their sexual template.
Another study examined measures of the likelihood of future sexually violent
behavior as well as past actual sexually violent behaviors. It found that all types of
pornography (soft core, hard core, violent, and rape) are correlated with using verbal
coercion, drugs, and alcohol to sexually coerce women. The likelihood of forcing a woman
sexually was correlated with the use of hard core, violent, and rape pornography. The
likelihood of raping a woman was correlated with the use of all types of pornography,
including soft-core pornography. All types of pornography other than soft core were
correlated with actual rape. Those reporting higher exposure to violent pornography are six
times more likely to report having raped than those reporting low exposure.
As well, one of the studies referenced in the paper above...
http://www.johnbriere.com/malamuth%20%26%20briere.pdf
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A society where 1 out of 10 teenage girls report being pressured to have sex isn't rape culture. Where rape is considered a compliment isn't rape culture. (As many a feminist have been told - "You're too fat/ugly to rape!"
Where being raped is an added deterrent to crime - prison rape is considered additional, justified punishment - isn't rape culture. Where trying to do something about rape is prejudicial against men, even tho men are 99% of the rapists, isn't rape culture. Where women are being told to be careful about what they wear, how much they drink, where they go, because men cannot control themselves, isn't rape culture. Where women are 9 times more likely to be raped by someone they know than a stranger isn't rape culture. Where women are tasked with the burden of rape prevention, of taking self defense classes and not walking alone out in the dark and be more aware because telling men not to rape is unjust to men isn't rape culture. Elected politicians talking about legitimate rape, and rapist musicians and athletes and directors are being lauded and victims being hounded and harassed to the (literal) death and women speaking out about misogyny and receiving rape and death threats and men pasting their girlfriends heads on nude models and sending the photoshop jobs to websites and their employers and where women cannot walk past a construction site without being harassed and where a guy gets 1 year or no time in prison for raping underage girls isn't rape culture.
You know what? Being raped is just as bad whether you're in Congo or in Connecticut. The fear of rape might be easier to hide in Connecticut than in Congo, but that doesn't mean it isn't there for a great number of us. We just have to go on some of the threads here at DU to read the posts of plenty of DUers that get their rocks off by watching women being raped...oh, sorry, seemingly being raped, because of course as long as there's a disclaimer at the start of the vid it's just pretend, natch. All women don't have to be raped for them to live in a rape culture - there just have to be a constant threat of it. And that constant threat benefit men so much they are very loath to admit it exists, because then they would have to examine their privilege, and they don't like to do that. Better to keep those pesky feminists down by dismissing them out of hand, right?
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The Witherspoon Institute is a homophobic shitbag organization which includes links to Prop 8 campaigns and funding homophobic junk science.
The anti-pornographer who authored your study said, and I shit you not, that the more porn women watch, the more likely they are to be raped.
And you write this sort of tripe off as "everyone has bias"
So whether you didn't know about it or not, you certainly didn't self-delete once you did know about it.
Very telling that.
REALLY!
DU seems to be very enlightening today LOL
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produced when people look at pictures of other naked, sexy people.
Otherwise known as "Erotoxins" - YES BE VEWWWWWY VEWWWWY AFWAID OF THE DWEAD EWOTOXINS
Yeah, Judith Reisman. She is also is a major religious right nutjob, has blamed Gay people for the Holocaust, that kind of stuff.
But her shit gets floated and promoted on DU because she's the only "scientist" in the Solar System who will claim that a naked picture of Veronika Zemanova is, quote, "1000 times more addictive than heroin".
Is somebody saying that in the echo chamber now?? Sweet Jeebus.. talk about jumping the shark… 
"Reisman is also a visiting professor of law at Liberty University, despite the fact that she received her Ph.D in Communications. She is also Liberty Counsel’s favored expert on issues pertaining to sexuality, and her advice was endorsed by Rick Santorum, who also supported a ban on pornography.[4]"
Yeah right, I bet she is good friends with that nasty piece of work Babs
It's disgusting that this garbage is posted here. I'm not an alert hog though, and I think it reflects badly on certain posters, so by all means, leave it and let people know where you really stand. 
Or it could be I was asleep like a normal human being. And then I've been at work. I know, crazy, right?
... is that one form of visual content "causes a behavior" and that no others do?
How does that work?
More flamebait nonsense.
No, sex negative feminists do not hate men.
Since when are right wing sources allowed here?
Next, you're going to tell me that since I play GTA, I'm going to shoot up shopping malls and schools.
Here's what I learned in the last couple of days: since I watch porn, I'm a potential rapist. Hyperbole much, people?
Good god.
The Research Program on Family, Marriage, and Democracy of the Witherspoon Institute
http://www.socialcostsofpornography.com/about.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witherspoon_Institute
Nice to see the anti-porn crowd allied with Rick Santorum types.
But you have provided no evidence to support said opinion and the metaanalysis was a quantitative investigation based on exhaustive research.
The definition of "gagging" in the study you posted, was this:
This is an odd definition. Because the "gag reflex" as is commonly associated with fellatio, is not particularly about breathing or not being able to breathe. Humans can breathe through their noses. So either these people found smut with odd shaped penii that were somehow able to go inside mouths AND obstruct nasal breathing, or they're defining the insertion of anything into a mouth which could be construed as obstructing the breathing through the mouth, as "obstructing breathing".
See what I'm saying? And there's really not very many things which CAN be put in a human mouth, save maybe snorkels, which aren't going to obstruct mouth breathing.
...in short, it really looks to me like they have defined the putting of a penis in a mouth (or a sex toy, or a hand
) itself, as an "aggressive act". Which is convenient if you're trying to make some statistical point about "aggression in porn", because certainly there's a lot of fellatio in porn.
So let me ask again; would you include blowjobs in a list of "aggressive, violent acts" if you were trying to categorize porn for a study like this?
LOL,
This really isn't that hard 
How old are you by the way?
and, while we're at it, fuck it.. let's have Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Oral Roberts weigh in too
but now I don't think that will be necessary.
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Just another RW fundie study to "teach" us all about the evils of sex. I still can't believe people on cite this types of sources.
