This is just the continuation of the "public health crisis" excuse to ban something people don't agree with. Smoking, Sugary drinks, guns, etc. The slippery slope continues.
C'mon, it's much more than that. The men in the US are not getting married, and having fewer children. Our birth rates are low and getting lower and sometimes I wonder if the real reason they don't crack down in illegal immigrants on either side is because they boost the numbers when it comes to birth rate.
At any rate, denying men access to porn will likely lead to more babies. At least, until the robot sex bots are under $5k.
Source? I'd like to see the study that not only shows correlation, but causation between access to porn and rape statistics. Don't just make up stuff to make yourself feel better.
Prefacing this with the fact that I don't disagree with the thrust of your argument, necessarily.
Correlation is not causation, but absence of correlation is absence of causation.
Not actually true. One example is if event A causes B, and event A is non-causally correlated to event C, and C causes ~B, then you can show no correlation between A and B even though A causes B.
Or look at this guy's argument: http://theincidentaleconomist.... [theinciden...nomist.com]. I didn't check out the rest of his site but the mathematical argument seems sound.
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This is just the continuation of the "public health crisis" excuse to ban something people don't agree with. Smoking, Sugary drinks, guns, etc. The slippery slope continues.
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"At any rate, denying men access to porn will likely lead to more babies"
Or more likely, more rape
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Correlation is not causation, but absence of correlation is absence of causation.
A study like the one mentioned in http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2006/10/how_the_web_prevents_rape.html [slate.com] doesn't prove that porn prevents rape.
It does, however, prove that porn doesn't increase rape.
And while smoke may not prove fire, fire's a good bet.
The study may not be enough to prove porn reduces rape, but it does point in that direction.
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Prefacing this with the fact that I don't disagree with the thrust of your argument, necessarily.
Correlation is not causation, but absence of correlation is absence of causation.
Not actually true. One example is if event A causes B, and event A is non-causally correlated to event C, and C causes ~B, then you can show no correlation between A and B even though A causes B.
Or look at this guy's argument: http://theincidentaleconomist.... [theinciden...nomist.com]. I didn't check out the rest of his site but the mathematical argument seems sound.