I found this article in Reason Magazine — “Is Porn a Catalyst of Sexual Violence” –to be fascinating. In the eighties and nineties the case was made, by the left and right, that porn leads to sexual violence. But the prevalence of smut on the internet, combined with a decline in sexual assaults and — at the very least– the failure of an outright orgy of rape to appear, disproves this. Turns out that porn may actually decrease sexual violence. At the very least, it obviously does not cause it. Not that the people who want to ban it will listen.
I remember an assembly at my school where some frumpish people came in and told us that porn was rape and that, if you watched it, you’d almost certainly become a rapist. It all had the ring of hairy palms and blindness to me. So, being a bright young man, I launched my own study and concluded that porn never made me rape anyone. I can’t say that didn’t make me not rape anyone but, let’s put it this way: I watch porn. I haven’t raped a single person. (To be completely fair, I’m a still a fairly young man and perhaps I will, one day, rape someone. I doubt it but anything is possible. That’s what people say anyway – anything is possible. I have my doubts about that too.)
The fact is – just about everybody watches porn. The people who don’t – well, they’re probably more sexually fucked up than the people who do. It’s not evil. It’s just sex. People like to watch other people hump. Big fucking deal. Hump your brains out for all I care. Just ask first or something. In the meantime, enjoy your humping.
