Must have happened recently. I lived in Japan for several years in the 
50's and 60's.
My parents were never concerned about a female being attacked.  It just 
didn't happen.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

Actually, the porn sites themselves don't bother me, but the porn SPAM 
does.

--Bob

Russell McMahon wrote:

>> I wonder if porn is, in truth, that bad.
>>
>> In Japan, porn is very open. People are squeezed together on a 
>> commuter train, yet several
>> people are reading little pamphlets of the grossest porn imaginable, 
>> yet Japan's yearly sex
>> crimes can be easily counted on one hand.  No scientific study has 
>> ever shown a relationship
>> between porn and sex crimes.
>
>
> The assertion re japan's sex crime rate doers not seem to be born out 
> by available data. While the Japanese sex crime rate is low per capita 
> compared to many countries, it's not as idyllic as you suggest. With 
> 1500 odd rapes a year (let alone other sex crimes)  you'd need a very 
> large single large hand to count them on.
>
> *** Interesting report ***
>
>    
> http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/online_artcls/pornography/prngrphy_rape_jp.html 
>
>
>    Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan
>    International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 22(1): 1-22. 1999
>    Milton Diamond University of Hawai'i - Manoa etc
>    Ayako Uchiyama  National Research Institute of Police Science Tokyo 
> 102, JAPAN
>
> This report also suggests that in Japan at least, and specifically, 
> there IS a correlation between sex crimes and pornography.
>
> It has also been suggested that the Japanese tend to ignore certain 
> classes of sex crimes which would be reported elsewhere - including 
> some wghich would be abhorrent to many western countries
>
> Pornography research site with a view to demnstrating that porn usage 
> reduces sex crimes -
> Site liable to be offensive to some (some portions of it wouuld be 
> offensive to me :-) ).
>
>        http://solomonsrefuge.com/PornStudies.htm
>
> ___________
>
> Ignoring Japan for the moment, I find that last assertion interesting. 
> I was under the impression that a causal relationship had been 
> formally established BUT I have no references for that. I would 
> suspect any pornographer who took that as a hard and fast position or 
> also being a tobacco company executive in their spare time (and 
> probably used to be on the Enron board).
>
> I find it extremely hard to imagine that there is not a relationship 
> (LBJ's investigation notwithstanding.(Hey, hey, LBJ ... :-(  ). .You 
> could argue that there is correlation without necessarily being 
> causation. ie it seems probable to me that the overwhelming majority 
> of sex criminals (whatever that means) are also users of pornography 
> but that does not per se establish a cause and effect relationship. I 
> would be surprised if there were many sex criminals who did not use 
> pornography. The general rule is that activities that target the 
> brains pleasure responses tend to "saturate" with use and both demand 
> greater and greater stimulus levels to achieve the same level of 
> "pleasure" and drive the user to maintain the pleasure levels. Once 
> hooked on sex related activities it'srobable that all available 
> affordable resources will be utilised.
>
> In the case of pornography, what (extremely) little I have come across 
> of harder core porn over the years has been to me quite sickening and 
> grotesque. This is not just a puritan knee-jerk morality reaction 
> (although I suppose there's some of that lurking in there somewhere as 
> well :-) ) but a genuine surprise at the strange things that people 
> find attractive once they have worked their way through the more 
> normal fare. As a (within the range of) normal male I am programmed 
> much the same as most other men. How and when one runs the program and 
> with what parameters can affect outcomes quite substantially. I'm sure 
> that people who now pursue what is to me bizarre and perverse forms of 
> sexual material started off with perspectives not too unlike my own.
>
> It would be interesting to know what was constituted "proof" of a 
> causal link between sex crimes and pornography. Unlike tobacco and 
> cancer where there are disease mechanisms which can be directly 
> analysed, in the case of P & SC we are dealing with the human mind and 
> proof is much more tenuous. However, any male who seriously questions 
> the link between the two is missing his calling as an engineer.
>
>
>
>            Russell McMahon
>


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