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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Porn and Rape: a social disease
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:09:11 EDT
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> Oh, and the Tobacco industry has maintained for years that no causal
> relation between cigarrette smoking and lung cancer has ever been medically
> demonstrated.  Sure, the sociological studies have only shown a high 
> statistical correlation between pornography and rape in neighborhood-
> by-neighborhood studies.  

References, please! I know of no studies which show that.

Plus, your analogy is a little strained. Sociological systems are at least
an order of magnitude more complex than biological systems.

 
> So I believe that our educational system is at fault, for 
> teaching people to listen, see and believe -- rather than to
> read, analyze and question.  It's not the sellers of porn
> that are indirectly causing rape, it's the buyers who 
> allow their values to be influenced by pornography.
> 
> Anyone care to disagree?

No. Although I personally don't find my values so influenced.

					Jeff Winslow


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