So why do child rapists get this special framing?Īctually, there’s a lot of evidence that the availability of pornography does reduce the rate of rape! The first argument for this is just that pornography went from ‘really hard to get’ to ‘free and totally ubiquitous’ over the last 25 years, and we’ve seen a 44% reduction in rape over the same time period, but there are actually stronger arguments than that.Ī better form of research on this is a study from Czechoslovakia, which criminalized and aggressively prosecuted pornography, and which collapsed in 1989, making it suddenly available.
I don't think rapists who target adult women do so because they were really horny and couldn't find rape porn (something that is demonstrably untrue, because rape porn does exist and can be found for free). I don't think a lack of suitable porn causes rape. Anonymous asked: I find the framing of child rapists as hapless victims of their own urges troubling.