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Ashton
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Post Number: 3161 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 66.90.104.94
Rating:  Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 06:37 pm: |
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The March issue of "The Scientist", a magazine covering developments in the life sciences, carries a report into various studies on the psychological and social effects of . Perhaps surprisingly (to some), the results of most of these studies appear to show that is good for us, and for society. Here are some excerpts: http://www.the-scientist.com/2010/3/1/29/1/#ixzz0hyj1TbD1 Over the years, many scientists have investigated the link between (considered legal under the First Amendment in the United States unless judged “obscene”) and sex crimes and attitudes towards women. And in every region investigated, researchers have found that as has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased. Despite the widespread and increasing availability of sexually explicit materials... the incidence of rape declined markedly from 1975 to 1995. This was particularly seen in the age categories 20–24 and 25–34, the people most likely to use the Internet... Kutchinsky, who studied Denmark, Sweden, West Germany, and the United States in the 1970s and 1980s... showed that for the years from approximately 1964 to 1984, as the amount of increasingly became available, the rate of rapes in these countries either decreased or remained relatively level. Later research has shown parallel findings in every other country examined, including Japan, Croatia, China, Poland, Finland, and the Czech Republic. In the United States there has been a consistent decline in rape over the last 2 decades, and in those countries that allowed for the possession of child , child sex abuse has declined. Studies of men who had seen X-rated movies found that they were significantly more tolerant and accepting of women than those men who didn’t see those movies, and studies by other investigators—female as well as male—essentially found similarly that there was no detectable relationship between the amount of exposure to and any measure of misogynist attitudes. No researcher or critic has found the opposite, that exposure to —by any definition—has had a cause-and-effect relationship towards ill feelings or actions against women. No correlation has even been found between exposure to and calloused attitudes toward women. YMC Haunted music
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