Author Question: What is one piece of evidence to support the idea that pornography does NOT lead to increased ... (Read 92 times)

darbym82 · **on:** Jun 18, 2018

What is one piece of evidence to support the idea that pornography does NOT lead to increased violent behavior?

a. Although the content of pornographic material has become significantly less violent over the years in the U.S., incidences of violent acts towards women has dramatically increased during that same time period.
b. A study performed in Denmark found that when subjects viewed pornographic images versus violent images different areas of the brain were responsive; in fact pornographic images did not activate areas associated with aggression but rather those associated with reward.
c. In the U.S. when computers were confiscated from criminals, those who committed violent crimes had less pornography on their computers than those who committed non-violent crimes.
d. Sexually explicit material in Japan is typically more violent than what is available in the U.S., but Japan has the lowest reported sex crime rates in the industrialized world.

Question 2

Obscenity laws did not exist in the United States until ____.

a. the early nineteenth century c. the end of the nineteenth century
b. the middle of the nineteenth century d. the beginning of the twentieth century