That is a horrible story.

I did research back in 80s on 'video nasties', and the 'moral panic' that violent videos caused violent behaviour. There was no conclusion except that there is no conclusion.

I will try to find where i saw recently a report saying that pornography usage has increased dramatically with the internet, while the number of sex crimes has decreased over the same period. Not an argument, of course, but relevant data.

I think that 'pornography' is such a broad term (and my research had to clarify usage of the word 'violence') that one would perhaps have to specify very precisely the terms one was using, and the strands of harm, types of pornography, demographic usage et...

That is a horrible story.

I did research back in 80s on 'video nasties', and the 'moral panic' that violent videos caused violent behaviour. There was no conclusion except that there is no conclusion.

I will try to find where i saw recently a report saying that pornography usage has increased dramatically with the internet, while the number of sex crimes has decreased over the same period. Not an argument, of course, but relevant data.

I think that 'pornography' is such a broad term (and my research had to clarify usage of the word 'violence') that one would perhaps have to specify very precisely the terms one was using, and the strands of harm, types of pornography, demographic usage etc. to be able to suggest a clear correlation.

A different, to me equally valid, approach is more poetic, and would see the rise in using the body as an 'It', as a recreational object, as an object for gratification, while fully consistent with mainstream values and the importance of one's and others' role to pleasure each other as a good, may represent in the context of one's own core values a symptom of moral malaise. Of course, you'd still be in a quagmire defending the value of personal belief against the 'universal'.*Kierkegaard). Or you may even consider that on the whole pornography is ok!