David BOAZ and Gibo

This is not the perfect dataset to work with but it is what I could get off the net. I looked first for local Austrlaian data but could find little (none) which went back before 1996

USA rates of forcible rape per 100,000 of population by year
per the US Dept of Justice Statistical database

Year United States-Total
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1960 9.6
1961 9.4
1962 9.4
1963 9.4
1964 11.2
1965 12.1
1966 13.2
1967 14.0
1968 15.9
1969 18.5
1970 18.7
1971 20.5
1972 22.5
1973 24.5
1974 26.2
1975 26.3
1976 26.6
1977 29.4
1978 31.0
1979 34.7
1980 36.8
1981 36.0
1982 34.0
1983 33.7
1984 35.7
1985 37.1
1986 37.9
1987 37.4
1988 37.6
1989 38.1
1990 41.2
1991 42.3
1992 42.8
1993 41.1
1994 39.3
1995 37.1
1996 36.3
1997 35.9
1998 34.5
1999 32.8
2000 32.0
2001 31.8
2002 33.1
2003 32.3
2004 32.4
2005 31.7
2006 30.9

Following a peak in 1993, the rate has been progressively declining.

Whilst your observation that the incidence is higher than in 1960 this might be due to several factors

Including

Reporting of offence, the social values have changed in the past 50 years, the stigma of rape has reduced which would encourage more reporting.

Rape as a consequence or in conjunction with other crime.

The influence of drugs on offenders.

Regarding specific studies into pornography:

There is little to find of a real test, most of it is anecdotal, however this link

http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=commstudies

will take you to a controlled test.

My paraphrasing of the conclusions: “no effect” between exposure to pornography and the desire to engage is a sexual assault.

A Danish study, across four countries, suggests the rate of assault declined after Pornography was legalized.

http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/14/kutchinsky.pdf

Rant all you want but as TLTR says "You'll forgive me if I prefer to rely on the actual studies, and refuse to kowtow to a godbotherer censorship lobby."

The usual defenders of their own rights to perversion despite the degradation to humanity and the sexual abuse to children. The depravity of the heart of man is clearly spoken of in the Scriptures. Most of these posters are clear evidence of this. Thankfully many still are not blinded to the obvious fruit of perversion (pornography). It is no wonde r that Islam is growing at such a rate when the perverts start to not even be ashamed of their own bondage.

At some stage it will click that porn has to be dealt with.
My suggestion would be for all police CIR forms (crime investigation forms) to have a little square on them to be ticked when porn was found at an offenders premises...not just sex offenders.
That way we can collect data and also hit them hard with extra penalties for having the material around to encourage possible sex crime. Which it does.
I do see a future coming where porn is banned for the good of the communities and offenders are heavily penalised for owning it. We wont stop the rapes any other way.

Tell me Gibo -

Kindly inform us as to why we should believe you, when you give no backing as to why.

You say it "encourages possible sex crime."

I call, "bulldust."

This is the part where you explain what proof you have, and explain how it is different to say, action movies encouraging gunfights.

If you can't explain the difference, I can only assume that you either think sex is worse than violence and people being killed, or you don't think adults can think for themselves.

As it stands, I just see you and boaz_david just spouting biblically infused opinions.

AND...it would be handy to have a national witchcraft dob in telelphone line/website to round up those that open their hearts to demon powers and get involved in abomination. If you know someone into the "dark communications"...dob them into detectives, even anonomously.
We mustnt let the kids get drawn into the cycle of witchcraft/sexual perversion/porn/and abomination.
If your children are goofing off with Harry Potter you really ought to stop it immediately lest they open a door and end up with more than a few problems.

AAAH.. COL.... well done mate on those stats.. such things are always good to fill in the gaps of our knowledge.. one of the great parts of a forum... (see below for a reference to such information)

TRTL... lets not be under any illusions. I absolutely know... that you do not bend ur knee to the God of the bible.. because you have told us so many times.

This is not the issue for me.

I (and others) am here, in a way 'prophetically' (let's see what Pericles and CJ do with 'that':).. prophets never were about 'popularity contests'..nor did their message depend on the degree of likely acceptance by the targets of Gods Word to them.
Any Christian can speak 'prophetically' in the 'general' sense shown in the Old Testament (and sometimes in the new), (though the OT prophets often had a specific word from God, for a specific time and people). It was always about:

-Calling the community back to God.
-A Timely warning about the consequences of sinful behavior.
-Sometimes specifically predictive about what kind of consequences will occur.
-Obedience to the Grace and Patience of God, in communicating His will and standards to a recalcitrant community.

It does not depend on 'surveys'... 'research'... 'studies'...it depends on ONE thing..and one thing alone.. "The Word..of God".
By that, I mean the moral standard set up by God in the Old Testament as reflected in the Law of Moses.

The important thing for you... is that because we speak in the spirit of the prophets..we don't say "Shape up or WE will ship you off to the Gulag" no no no... we say "This is what God has laid down.. depart from it at your own risk".

There is the added element though.. that departing this world in a state of unrepented sin, will have eternal consequences. We all have 'choice'...until our last breath, then..its game over.
People will then see if it was just 'our belief' or.. reality.

Fractelle.... that site was.. *creepy* :)