[net.women] Pornography, Rape, and Statistics

cbd@iham1.UUCP (deitrick) (09/26/85)

There may be a correlation between pornography and rape, but that doesn't
mean that there is a cause and effect relationship. I can show a correlation
between my age and the number of computers in use in this country, but it
doesn't mean that the increase in my age *causes* an increase in the number
of computers in this country. Stephen Jay Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man"
talks about this at greater length.

					Carl Deitrick
					ihnp4!iham1!cbd

Personally, pornography doesn't do me any good: my pornograph is broken.
Something wrong in the pre-amp, I believe. :-)