Rape stats

[deist99]

Here are two links that show that rapes rates have declined tremendously over the last few decades. The first shows a 85% decrease from 1973 to 2003. http://anthonydamato.law.northwestern.edu/adobefiles/porn.pdf The other shows a 60% decrease since 2003. http://www.statisticbrain.com/rape-statistics/

This is great news for our soceity and of course we should continue to aim for zero. To get to this point though we have to correctly identify causes. Both people and organizations on the left and the right claim there is a link between porn and rape/sexual assault. These statistics seem to show that this causation does not exist.

So my question for discussion is what has caused this tremendous drop and how can we build on this.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Thank you

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4971202

Maybe now *I* will no longer be the most-hated person on DU, as your post will be more recent.

[L0oniX]

2. We should have a poll on who is the most hated person on DU.

I was really hoping to be in the top ten.

[MoonRiver]

5. There is a positive correlation between how hated one is

and how many hearts one gets during the DU Valentine's Day fundraiser.

[L0oniX]

6. You noticed that too?

[MoonRiver]

7. Clear as day for those who choose to notice!

[deist99]

3. ?

I'm fairly new to DU but I would hope in a democratic space we could have a rational, civil, intelligent conversation about an important topic without hatred or ad hominem attacks.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. I would hope so, too.

But hatred and ad hominem attacks have been highly admired on DU for thr past few years.

[deist99]

8. Post

Just got done with reading your post from May. There were some very intelligent responses. I found the you can have causation without corelation very interesting and will have to research that more. I wonder what we can make from the one study I linked to that compares states with
highest and lowest Internet rates and corresponding rape rates.
There were some snarky comments from people on both sides. But on such a divisive issue that is going to happen.