How the Web Prevents Rape. A researcher studying increases in internet usage side-by-side with crime data on a state-by-state basis has discovered that a 10% increase in internet access nets a 7.3% decrease in rape. The theory? A person liable to commit rape can't do so while shacked up at home whacking off to internet porn.
...psychologists have found that male subjects, immediately after watching pornography, are more likely to express misogynistic attitudes. But as professor Kendall points out, we need to be clear on what those experiments are testing: They are testing the effects of watching pornography in a controlled laboratory setting under the eyes of a researcher. The experience of viewing porn on the Internet, in the privacy of one's own room, typically culminates in a slightly messier but far more satisfying experience—an experience that could plausibly tamp down some of the same aggressions that the pornus interruptus of the laboratory tends to stir up.And yet conservatives try to create a friendlier world by blocking access to porn at schools and libraries. What they really need are booths with locking doors.
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