Pre-historic Goddess Figures: Ancient Objectification?

[4th law of robotics]

9. I particularly enjoy the argument:

that if you argue rape is on the decline that means you're ok with the number of rapes there are.

So you can't point out (and certainly can't be happy with) the fact that there are fewer rapes this year than last without tacitly supporting rape in general.

Which makes zero sense (if you supported rape you'd rejoice when it becomes more common, not less).

Personally, I don't think porn and rape have anything to do with each other. But if porn was making rape "worse" or "more acceptable" or encouraging "rape culture", the oft-decried pornification of society ought to result in a statistical increase in rape, NOT the decrease which all statistical entities report and acknowledge.

I would tend to view the relationship as correlated but not causative. Free nations that respect individual rights and freedoms allow porn *and* don't tolerate sexual violence. Less free nations based around religious edicts rather than individual rights don't allow porn *and* are more tolerant of sexual violence.

So more porn isn't causing fewer rapes. They're both symptoms of the same thing: a free and open healthy society that functions, if not ideally, then at least better than the alternative. And vice-versa.