Rape has increased more than 500 percent since 1960-violent pornography often serves as a manual for rape. A study of adult sex offenders found that 86 percent of convicted rapists said they were regular users of pornography, with 57 percent admitting direct imitation in the commission of their rapes of pornographic scenes they enjoyed. Based on U.S. Census estimates of the number of adult women in America, one out of every eight adult women, or at least 12.1 million American women, has been the victim of forceable rape in her lifetime. For those persons predisposed to sexual crime, pornography serves as fuel for the fire. Four million child molesters live in the United States.
Exposure often begins at age thirteen.
This distorts their views of how women feel about sex and what can reasonably be expected from sex. P ornography is an affront to the worth and dignity of women and children and contributes to their degradation, abuse and humiliation.