Rishi wrote:This isn’t just an issue of defending sexual expression and fantasy, though. As the Atlantic Wire reports, “The connection between actual real-life violence and porn is blurry at best — India, which bans all forms of porn, has been in the news thanks to a rash of brutal rapes. Meanwhile, in the United States the incidence of rape declined 85 percent over a period of 25 years while access to pornography has increased.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/20/in_defense_of_rape_fantasies/

>>>What should Indians do? Allow porn cable in their country?

Kris wrote:

Rishi wrote:This isn’t just an issue of defending sexual expression and fantasy, though. As the Atlantic Wire reports, “The connection between actual real-life violence and porn is blurry at best — India, which bans all forms of porn, has been in the news thanks to a rash of brutal rapes. Meanwhile, in the United States the incidence of rape declined 85 percent over a period of 25 years while access to pornography has increased.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/20/in_defense_of_rape_fantasies/

>>>What should Indians do? Allow porn cable in their country?

>> She seems to be saying there is no correlation between access to porn and sexual violence, rather than an inverse relationship, based what you have highlighted. Incidentally, I am not sure these things are that clear cut. How do we know that is the only variable? For instance, another variable may be sexual freedom. For a more valid comparison, the societies compared need to be have the same level of restriction on sexual freedom with the variable being access to porn. There could be other factors as well, but that one jumps out the most.

Rishi wrote:

Kris wrote:

Rishi wrote:This isn’t just an issue of defending sexual expression and fantasy, though. As the Atlantic Wire reports, “The connection between actual real-life violence and porn is blurry at best — India, which bans all forms of porn, has been in the news thanks to a rash of brutal rapes. Meanwhile, in the United States the incidence of rape declined 85 percent over a period of 25 years while access to pornography has increased.”

http://www.salon.com/2013/11/20/in_defense_of_rape_fantasies/

>>>What should Indians do? Allow porn cable in their country?

>> She seems to be saying there is no correlation between access to porn and sexual violence, rather than an inverse relationship, based what you have highlighted. Incidentally, I am not sure these things are that clear cut. How do we know that is the only variable? For instance, another variable may be sexual freedom. For a more valid comparison, the societies compared need to be have the same level of restriction on sexual freedom with the variable being access to porn. There could be other factors as well, but that one jumps out the most.

>>>An inverse relation also implies correlation, a negative one though.

http://mtweb.mtsu.edu/stats/dictionary/popup_definitions/inverse_correlation.html

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_a_negative_correlation_coefficient_indicate_an_inverse_relationship?#slide=2