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In reply to the discussion: ‘Rape porn’ possession to be punished by three years in jail, David Cameron to announce [View all]Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Official figures just released show a plunge in the number of rapes per capita in the United States since the 1970s. Even when measured in different ways, including police reports and survey interviews, the results are in agreement: there has been an 85% reduction in sexual violence in the past 25 years. The decline, steeper than the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression, is depicted in this chart prepared by the United States Department of Justice:

As the chart shows, there were 2.7 rapes for every 1,000 people in 1980; by 2004, the same survey found the rate had decreased to 0.4 per 1000 people, a decline of 85%.
Official explanations for the unexpected decline include:
less lawlessness associated with crack cocaine;
women have been taught to avoid unsafe situations;
more would-be rapists already in prison for other crimes;
sex education classes telling boys that no means no.
But these minor factors cannot begin to explain such a sharp decline in the incidence of rape.
There is, however, one social factor that correlates almost exactly with the rape statistics. The American public is probably not ready to believe it. My theory is that the sharp rise in access to pornography accounts for the decline in rape. The correlation is inverse: the more pornography, the less rape. It is like the inverse correlation: the more police officers on the street, the less crime.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2006/06/rape-porn-and-criminality-political.php
Really you need to go back to Fluff posts.
Either that or come down here to New Orleans and walk down Bourbon St during Mardis Gras.
You'll get a crash course in human sexual expression 101.