Did you catch the bit about how pornography is also implicated in causing impotence yet also plays a part in rape and incest? Sounds a bit contradictory. It also begs the question as to why, if pornography makes us so prone to falling to all of these ills, it can't be used as a defense or mitigating circumstance. The answer, of course, is that pornography makes you no more prone to committing certain acts than does poverty or a bad childhood. It makes us feel better, though, to think that evil people don't simply do evil things....that it is a choice. Instead, there is comfort in the idea that if we just avoid certain things we'll be nice and safe.
Yeah, that was pretty puzzling too, but it was her making a reference to some previous article she wrote. I'm sure her explanation of it was amusing.
"Since 2000, the overall number of sexual assaults — including those reported to police and those not — dropped by 22%, according to the US Justice Department’s National Crime Victimization Survey, the nation’s most detailed crime measure."
"In the last decade, the US has experienced an unprecedented decline in the number of sex crimes; the total is down by 58% since 1993."
I firmly believe evil people do evil things. And I believe it's evil to produce pornography and sleaze and market it in every venue and profit from it.
Children these days have to be protected from even mainstream TV programming and commercials. Our degraded culture is hostile to innocence and childhood, and therefore will go the way of all decadent cultures.
Contradictory? Yes, on the surface.
It seems to me that the response to porn varies between individuals just as the response to alcohol varies between individuals. Some people who overindulge become loud and obnoxious; others who drink the same mix become withdrawn and quiet.
Just because two individuals have different responses to the same stimulus does not mean that there is no problem; it also does not mean that the person who identifies the problem is "a nut." IMHO, that magnifies the need to face the problem and deal with it.