The author's apprehension is justified.One need not have evidence in the form of emprical studies. The problem can be easily assumed by applying common sense. After all pornography is the work of deranged minds. Normal people will observe public decency. Media is in the hands of money minded people whose hoizon does not extend beyond money and self.Upbringing of children in a right social environment is very vital. The errretic behaviour of children is definitly due to the influence of media,it cannot be denied.An immoral society which includes men and women, cannot understand the repurcussions of the antisocial activities.Media has to be controlled by a panel of psycholgists,doctors,public figures and social activists. The primary cause for the mistakes in the media world is the greed for money. Socities should function with values as the pivot and not money.

Johnj

“ ... high porn use does correlate with high levels of sexual aggression in a tiny minority (approx %1) of the sample. High porn use is a risk factor in certain high-risk groups ..."

Your information supports a study done in France some years ago. Research found that only those with a tendency, already, to certain activities would actually perform them from looking at porn. Porn in portraying such activities, situated them as OK, however, with contuining portrayal of these, situated these as the "norm". This then become the problem - when those with proclavities towards an action, began to see it as normal - (but perhaps not generally acceptable in the wider society)

Studies have shown that rapist-killers have collections of "slash" material. However, it does not follow that men, who indulge in this type of material, will actually go out and perform it. Rapist-killers can not be "created" from porn, unless they already have a prediliction to do so. (Although, from a completely non-academic point of view, it would suggest that men who indulge in this material have a problem).

It is also a fact that some males (possibly females ) will be "turned on" by completely innocent objects. I recall a very abstract sculpture of a nude woman (no curves), commissioned by, and placed outside a mental health centre. Passing it quite some time later, I noticed it completely taken over with dense foliage - the head only evident. Knowing one of the psychologists, I asked why they had let this beautiful piece of art be disfigured this way. The answer - some of the patients they were trying to help, weren't being helped by the presence of the sculpture ... in fact, made their problems worse.

*Males need to raise themselves up to the womens level and not bring the women down to their level.*

Err Sweetcorn, what level? Should men become more like women and
rip females off for every dollar, like Paul McCarthy's ex and others?

Should they marry some rich female for the money?

Or perhaps they could just become town planners and sleep with
rich female property developers?

Get real Sweetcorn.

"What if" writes the author if the word rape slips from common usage?

I believe that there is a much chance of this happening as there is that the will sun stop shinning.

It would appear that the author is following the trend set by the rad feminists in the 60's and 70's.

Spiked magazine has an article on this.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/printable/300/

The author also asks if the male leaders in the future will be able to perceive women as human beings with feelings. It is a rather strange twist in that Psychologist Toby Green reported that it is women who have difficulty in acknowledging that men are human being who have feelings.

The many criticisms here of the author’s writing style – albeit partly justified – tend to miss the point of what she is saying. To me, her most sobering argument is this one:

‘The coming decades are unchartered territory for women. We don’t know what the “social experiment” of mass pornography consumption by males will mean for us.’

What history has shown is that when patriarchal societies come under stress, rich powerful men treat poor, powerless men as expendable, and they in turn take out their pain and unhappiness on women.

In fact, the coming decades are unchartered territory on many issues – environmental devastation, climate change, the end of oil, the ‘endless’ war on terror, even more nuclear arms escalation and missile defence, the decline of the West and the rise of China and India, to name a few.

The Internet has brought some major positives – particularly in breaking the political and media stranglehold on public debate, and returning it to the people. However, it has also created a mass hyper-masculine outlet for disaffected men, whose numbers are set to increase substantially if the world is unable to successfully navigate the coming decades of change.

This is not scaremongering – it’s common sense. Women have to chart a course through what increasingly looks to be a time of great instability. The escalation in pornography is only one of the many ‘unchartered’ issues we will have to face. Whether it’s through feminism or other social channels, women need a political voice now more than ever.

common sense should be backed by evidence, of which the author and her supportive posters have produced none.