But let’s look at what actually ended up happening through the late eighties and onward regarding the relation of pornographic material and sexualized violence in the media, with the frequency of known sexual crimes in the US.
When forensic science made DNA analysis and identification possible, that cut the numbers of crimes in half immediately, I would imagine. But to make a real determination here you’d have to run a bunch of numbers and statistics and compare yer per capitas and draw all yer graphs and shit and who’s got time for all that.
It it my theory that once porn - even the more graphic sadomasochistic stuff - became more easily available and accessible through the internet, it actually served as a deterrent to sexual crimes in general because it provided a product and an outlet for vicarious or surrogate sexual experience. In other words, the thing that Ted warned us would be making our creeps, actually ended up taking care of the creeps it made… keeping them off the streets and in their sweaty teenage rooms in front of their computer screens.
The forensic science revolution coupled with the mass commercialization of every kind of porn imaginable, turned a generation of potential sociopaths almost moved to commit sexual violence, into a radically new class and culture of nine inch nails listenin-to, no highschool sports playin, camel lights smokin, VCR video rental store clerk workin, moderately overweight lethargic life-havin, dungeons and dragons playin, star trek convention goin, socially awkward 1995 corolla driving male teenager with light to moderate acne and never anything above a C+ in school.
I mean really if the accessibility of pornography has gone up, and the numbers of known sexual crimes has gone down, then the correlation Ted and Dobson are on about, ended up being a false alarm. But they couldn’t have known this and their cause was noble.
Rather what we, as a society, should be looking at, is how strange it is that humans might make an industry out of sexually graphic media so instead of having to actually have sex to be satisfied, they can look at other humans on electronic screens engage in sexual activity and masturbate while watching.
And this is going on in the hundreds of millions all over the erf.
But no, there wuz never gonna be a nation wide ban on pornography just because a handful of freaks ended up being influenced by it a little too heavily.
But still, how can u, as a society, sleep well at night knowing that millions of decent, misunderstood but well meaning slightly overweight or excessively skinny virgin male adolescent Korn fans (who aren’t tough enough to get into the mosh pits at the live shows and are ridiculed by their peers all the time because of it) are sitting in front of their computers watching blue haired women with dragon dildos doing untold things to themselves at pornhub?
Yes, they aren’t out murdering women, but is this really a viable and healthy alternative? Should we not work as a society to encourage others to improve themselves so they aren’t afraid to go outside into the sun with shorts on instead of black pants, and tennis shoes rather than big 'ol unnecessary impractical over-done and perfectly gratuitous military boots of some kind, and ask the girl down the street on a date?
With the revolution of forensic science and the emasculating forces of consumer culture, our serial killer breed from the seventies and eighties died a slow, myopic death. Men no longer had the balls, opportunity, or the acumen to be a Theodore Bundy, and into their 67 degree basements and studio apartments with wainscoting they go wearing their glasses and bangs… wanting to violate u… to penetrate u, to fuck u like an animaaaal!!!
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