Pornography Promotes Rape and Aggression Towards Women

According to the following studies, there is strong evidence that shows a direct correlation between pornography and sexual aggression towards women. According to this statistical analysis, AAFES has a choice to make. They can choose profit by selling pornography or they can choose to aid in the protection against sexual harassment and sexual abuse by not selling pornography. This article is taken from KTK.ru:

Gray, Susan (1982)
"Levels of aggression in already-angered men are increased by exposure to hard-core materials."

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Research conducted involving 36 serial murderers revealed that 81% (29/36) reported pornography as one of their highest sexual interests, making pornography one of the most common profile characteristics of serial murderers.

Dr. William Marshall (1983)
He found that 86% of rapists admitted regular use of pornography, with 57% admitting actual imitation of pornography scenes in commission of sex crimes.

Malamuth (1981)
Responses found to characterize (convicted) rapists were:
1) general acceptance of rape myths, and
2) high arousal to rape depictions.

He studied male college students, asking them, "How likely would you be to rape if you knew you would not be caught?" --35% indicated they would.

Malamuth and Check (1985)
After studying 307 students, they concluded that "media depictions (pornography) suggesting that (showing that) rape results in the victim's arousal contributes to men's belief in a similar rape myth -- particularly men with higher inclinations to aggress against women."

Victor Cline, Ph.D. (Utah Psychologist)
He identified a common pattern of progression with many pornography users (sex offenders):
1. addiction to hard core pornography;
2. escalation in the need for more shocking material;
3. desensitization toward initially shocking material; and
4. an increased tendency to "act out" sexual activities

Zillmann, Dolf (1982)
Findings show that massive exposure (4 hours forty minutes over six weeks) to standard pornography (people having consensual, nonviolent sex) resulted in
1. a loss of compassion toward women as rape victims and toward women in general;
2. a loss of concern about the effects of pornography on others;
3. a need for more violent and bizarre forms of sex;
4. a desensitization to violent, non-coercive hard core pornography; and
5. a trivialization of rape.

Michigan State Police ( Lt. Darrell H. Pope)
Studied and recorded the use of pornography in sex crimes. He researched 48,000 sex crimes spanning a 20 year period (1956-1979). (Research was done in 1977, replicated in 1981).

In 42% of the 48,000 sex crimes investigated, police indicated that pornography was involved -- used just prior to, or during the act of sexual assault -- as stated by the victim or the offender.

Silbert and Pines (1984)
A detailed content analysis of 193 cases of rape and of 178 cases of juvenile sexual abuse revealed a clear relationship between violent pornography and sexual abuse.

Goldstein, Kant and Harman (1973)
Rapists are 15 times as likely as non-offenders (30% to 2%) to have had exposure to "hard core" pornography during childhood or between 6 to 10 years of age. They also tended to report an earlier age of "peak experience" with pornography."

It is highly likely, based upon McGaugh's studies on memory, that the early experiences "stood out in the minds" of these children because of the release of the chemical epinephrine during their emotional arousal. This makes these findings even more disturbing.

The correlation investigations show, that porno materials can provoke a man to behave aggressively with a woman. As J. Court (1984) mentioned, during 1960-1970 the quantity of rapes has sharply increased after the widespread distribution of porno materials. Such tendency was not observed only in those regions of the world, where pornography distribution was under control. Here are some examples: at Hawaii the quantity of rapes increased in 9 times, than decreased (a temporary limit on pornography was introduced), than increased again (after the cancellation of the limit on pornography). The example of northern American States shows, that the selling rate of magazines with sexual content is in strict correlation with rape statistics (the quantity of young people and other factors were taken into account). Alaska was the first at selling sex-magazines and also at rapes, Nevada was at the second place, and so on. Sexual criminals are usually an active consumers of such products. People, who were condemned for sexual harassment to children, had watched porno films much more often, than those, who haven’t committed such crimes. The same is true with the serial killers (according to FBI data). One can suppose, that the consumption of porno products is the consequence (and not the cause) of some psychological deviation. But laboratory experiments indicate quite clear dependencies: the analysis of 21 experiments in this field allows to conclude, that watching porno materials, especially containing violence scenes, fosters aggressive attitude to women.