I was buying pornography

I know it's old news, but I must have missed this when it came out last year.

The incidence of rape in the United States has declined 85% in the past 25 years while access to pornography has become freely available to teenagers and adults. The Nixon and Reagan Commissions tried to show that exposure to pornographic materials produced social violence. The reverse may be true: that pornography has reduced social violence.

Basically, it debunks the myths of the Meese Report. The indirect correlation is obvious, especially the sharp drop that started in the early '90s, but I'd like to see a study of the causal relationship.

Jake is post jacking. Bad choice of words considering the topic. I could go back and change that, but I won't.

A similar study done several years previous suggested that there was a link between slasher movies and a reduction in violent crimes like assault. That study kept track of the movies showing in neighborhoods with statistically high crime rates and was able to show a distinctive drop in violent crime when violent movies were playing in those neighborhoods.

The more recent study on pornography studied rape and sexual assault rates through the 90's tracking it in conjunction with internet accessibility. The researchers found that as home computers and internet connectivity entered an area, the sex crimes dropped.

Both studies could be used to support a couple of theories on human behavior. Perhaps the part of the brain that supported activities which society considers detrimental to the greater good (ie. burn, rape, loot, pillage while not in the armed services) can feed vicariously and be satiated. It supports the concept of neurolinguistic programming where the brain does not know the difference between doing an activity and thinking about doing that activity. The same part of the brain will activate either way. Either that or it is a simple matter of a person being unable to rape some random woman they happen to meet when they're sitting in front of a home computer beatin' the meat.