![]() ![]() ![]() Crusaders for either side of the issue on pornography are fond of this anecdotal "research" technique. These studies consist mostly of anecdotal or hearsay materials with little or no control on recall, bias, or selection of spokespersons interviewed. Unfortunately, there is usually no official police record kept of the (more common) occasions when no pornography is involved while it is common to record when it is found to be involved. Here come to mind the work of Abel (Abel, Barlow, Blanchard, & Guild, 1977 Abel & Becker, 1985 Abel, Mittelman, & Becker, 1985), Becker (Becker & Stein, 1990 1991) and Kant and Goldstein (1970) (Goldstein, Kant, Judd, Rice, & Green, 1971 Goldstein & Kant, 1973).Ĭomparably, one can research either the victim of sex crimes or interview police investigators and record how pornography might or might not have figured in any criminal incident. These investigators interview persons who have committed some sort of sex offense and compare their experiences with pornography with those who have not committed sex crimes. Examples of such studies are those of Zillmann and Bryant (Zillmann, 1984 Zillmann & Bryant, 1982 1984 Zillmann & Weaver, 1989), Malamuth & Donnerstein (Donnerstein, 1984 Donnerstein, Donnerstein, & Evans, 1975 Donnerstein, Linz, & Penrod, 1987 Malamuth & Donnerstein, 1984).Īnother research technique, somewhat closer to the real world, is often used by clinicians. This is often contrived with the use of a confederate to goad the subject to react. The experimenter can ask of the subject's subsequent masturbation, or coital frequency, attitudes toward hypothetical situations or even place the subject into a manipulated situation in which he or she is supposedly reacting in a way molded by the exposure experience. Then some paper and pencil test or artificial situation is fabricated to measure what the experimenter thinks is a reflection of the subject's experience. Teaching psychologists usually use random samples of people but most often employ students, either volunteers or not, as subjects, These subject are then presented with a sequence of exposures to different media, usually video or film clips for varying periods of time. ![]() Depending upon the field of the experimenter and his/her expertise, different research methods are employed. Real-life World Effects of Pornography: Relation to Sex Crimesįor those who wish to study the effects of pornography, real-world studies seem rare. Rates of Criminal Victimization, 1993-1996, United States Female Rape: Victimization Rates, United States Portions of this paper have been published in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (Diamond and Uchiyama, 1999-22(1):1-22.) Parts of this paper were presented at the World Pornography Conference: August 7, 1998, Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California. Printed version may be somewhat different. Published in: Porn 101: Eroticism, Pornography, Title: The Effects of Pornography: an international perspective ![]()
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