His groupies and fans say he's harmless. When charges were filed against Jabba in Cincinnati, the prosecutor showed our editorial board one of his Hustler store's videos. It was nothing like what Jabba's friends and lawyers describe. Male college students exposed to soft porn were more likely to believe women enjoy being raped, began to fantasize about rape and required more deviant and graphic porn to achieve the same stimulation. This is what Jabba's magazines and videos teach boys ages 12-17, who are the biggest consumers of porn.
Research shows that porn is an accomplice in crime.
A study of 38,000 sexual assault cases in Michigan found that 41 percent involved the use of pornography just prior to the act or during the act. At the least, porn teaches young men to see women as sex toys. Women in chains. They didn't even do that. Demands that he be fired were ignored.