research on Dangers of Pornography
adrian, 18 Oct 2005 21:03:29
>how about this?
> In sum, empirical research designed to clarify the question has found no
>evidence to date that exposure to explicit sexual materials plays a
>significant role in the causation of delinquent or criminal behavior among
>youths or adults. The Commission cannot conclude that exposure to erotic
>materials is a factor in the causation of sex crime or sex delinquency.
>In fact, the Commission made the argument that pornography likely had a
>cathartic effect for citizens, pointing out that the majority of sex
>offenders surveyed had come from sexually repressive homes where pornography
>was not available. Similar conclusions were reached nine years later by the
>Williams Committee in England (Home Office, 1979).
Home Office! YESSS! We must get hold of a copy. In it will be our killer
quote I'm sure. Brilliant. 24 point type in the middle of one of our web
pages.
Paul Tavener, 18 Oct 2005 21:24:37
Why not use research from the UK -
Home Office Report of the Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship
chaired by Bernard Williams between 1977 and 1979
Even in 1979 the Williams committee threw doubts on the ability of films to deprave and corrupt.
Pornography - Impacts and Influences a Home Office research report, by Dr Guy Cumberbatch and Dr Dennis Howitt in 1990
Found no evidence of any link between the availability of pornography and sexual crime and effectively endorsed all previous findings that sexually explicit material is harmless.
The second would be better as it was commissioned by the Home Office. Having said that as has already been mentioned there are reports that state the opposite that the opposition may use so we can't say the research findings are conclusive.
zak, 18 Oct 2005 22:50:11
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admin@ofwatch.org.uk, 18 Oct 2005 22:50:11
Why not use research from the UK -
[[Home Office Report of the Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship
chaired by Bernard Williams between 1977 and 1979
Even in 1979 the Williams committee threw doubts on the ability of films to
deprave and
corrupt.
Pornography - Impacts and Influences a Home Office research report, by Dr
Guy Cumberbatch
and Dr Dennis Howitt in 1990
Found no evidence of any link between the availability of pornography and
sexual crime and
effectively endorsed all previous findings that sexually explicit material
is harmless.
The second would be better as it was commissioned by the Home Office.
Having said that as
has already been mentioned there are reports that state the opposite that
the opposition
may use so we can't say the research findings are conclusive.]]
All the reports usually cited by the opposition can be shown either to have
been
discredited or for the opposition to be usuing quotes very selectively out
of context.
Alison King's "Mystery and Imagination" essay in the FAC book Bad Girls and
Dirty Pictures
goes into very useful detail on this but, broadly speaking, all the
research cited by
anti-porn campaigners is the sort of thing where male college students were
shown some
wank mags then cordially invited to give a colleague a fake electric shock:
not really a
set up that demonstrates anything much...
zjk
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Graham Marsden, 19 Oct 2005 01:48:59
zak@missdemeanour.idps.co.uk wrote:
> Pornography - Impacts and Influences a Home Office research report, by Dr
> Guy Cumberbatch and Dr Dennis Howitt in 1990. Found no evidence of any
> link between the availability of pornography and sexual crime and
> effectively endorsed all previous findings that sexually explicit
material
> is harmless.
> All the reports usually cited by the opposition can be shown either to have
> been discredited or for the opposition to be usuing quotes very selectively
> out of context.
Sort of related to this and of possible interest, Dr Cumberbatch was,
I'm pretty sure, consulted by Channel 4's "Right to Reply" programme
after Dispatches did a ridiculous edition blaming American High School
shootings etc on violent video games.
(Yours truly got to go on RtR and give the Dispatches presenter a very
hard time about the shortcomings of his report! :-) )
The show featured some "research" where the volunteer was, IIRC, asked
questions and if they got a right answer they'd get given some
jellybeans by the questioner and if they were wrong the questioner would
stick their hand into a bowl of ice water.
The argument was that if the person asking the questions had played a
violent video game they would give smaller "rewards" and put the other
person's hand in the water for longer.
Trouble was, however, as Dr Cumberbatch pointed out the female
(feminist?!) researcher (who had, apparently, done other such "research"
that was equally as bad) was sitting there, whilst they were doing it
and seemed to be giving non-verbal "approval" signals to the questioner
when sticking the hand in the water after they'd played the video game!
Cheers,
Graham.
zak, 19 Oct 2005 12:56:23
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graham graham@affordable-leather.co.uk, 19 Oct 2005 12:56:23
Sort of related to this and of possible interest, Dr Cumberbatch was,
I'm pretty sure, consulted by Channel 4's "Right to Reply" programme
after Dispatches did a ridiculous edition blaming American High School
shootings etc on violent video games.
The show featured some "research" where the volunteer was, IIRC, asked
questions and if they got a right answer they'd get given some
jellybeans by the questioner and if they were wrong the questioner would
stick their hand into a bowl of ice water.
The argument was that if the person asking the questions had played a
violent video game they would give smaller "rewards" and put the other
person's hand in the water for longer.
Trouble was, however, as Dr Cumberbatch pointed out the female
(feminist?!) researcher (who had, apparently, done other such "research"
that was equally as bad) was sitting there, whilst they were doing it
and seemed to be giving non-verbal "approval" signals to the questioner
when sticking the hand in the water after they'd played the video game!
Cheers,
Graham.
One of many problems with this type of research is that the activities the
test subject is
given to choose from rarely correspond to the range of activities a person
usually wants
to engage in after watching porn/playing games... such as going to the loo,
getting
something to eat, phoning a friend, having a wank, doing the washing up etc.
Also, a lot of this sort of research is done on the researcher's
pals/classmates/colleagues and/or people who may be familiar with the test
procedures, or
who particularly want to *please* (or even annoy) the researcher.
All this sort of stuff is worth knowing for those who may be engaging in
open discussion
with people not necessarily on the side of Backlash...
ZJK
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