Reply #44: We cannot conclude from the fact that X happened after Y that Y

[Baconfoot]

is even a contributing cause to Xs occurring.



I would also like to mention that men were raping women and each other long before there were trashcans full of porn around through which to rummage. There's no way to establish any increase in incidents because accurate pre-porn data doesn't exist... BECAUSE PORN HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE WITH US. Now maybe we've got more porn now, maybe not. And if we had reliable pre-more-porn era sexual assault statistics, we could make some kind of argument, BUT WE DON'T. We probably don't even have good current statistics due to underreporting.

I conclude that nothing purporting to be evidence of the assertion that porn causes sexual deviance is actually such evidence. Does this mean that the assertion is false? No. Only that we don't have any evidence for it.

Oh and, by the way:
Can you conclude from my remarks that I hate women and an pro-pornography? No.
You can think pornography is a dangerous, exploitive activity which has a negative effect even on those individuals who don't watch it, without thinking that it is a contributing cause to sexual deviance in those who partake of it.