Pornography and sexual offences

The Role of Pornography in Sexual Offending

“…Of those, 57 had shown their minor-age victims pornographic images and 37 had taken videos or photographs of their victims. This confirms findings from a study conducted a decade and a half earlier by Langevin et al (1988) that is referenced later in this paper.…”

“…Moreover, relative to a comparison group, child sex offenders were actually less likely to have ever used child pornography (Langevin et al, 1988). In contrast, Becker, and Stein (1991), Kutchinsky (1991) and other authors found no significant difference after conducting comparative studies of sex offenders and control groups.…”

Pornography and the paedophile: Is it criminogenic?

“…In terms of current (adult) use of pornography at the time of offending, research over the last three decades has produced little strong and consistent evidence of greater consumption of pornography by offenders (Cook & Fosen, 1970;Goldstein, Kant, Judd, Rice & Green, 1970;Johnson e t al., 1970;Walker, 1970)-any differences tending to indicate that offenders use pornography less. Langevin, Lang, Wright & Hardy (1988) interviewed over 200 offenders and 150 controls but found no evidence that pornography was a factor in the offending. Goldstein (1973), however, reported that many more of his rapists claimed to have been aroused to masturbate by pornography than his control group did.…”

The Sexy Side of the Internet: An Examination of Sexual Activities and Materials in Cyberspace

“…Similarly, D'Amato (2006) has reported that the four U.S. states with the lowest rates of Internet access have increased rates of forcible rape by 53 percent from 1980 to 2000, while the four U.S. states with the highest rates of Internet access have decreased rates of rape by 27 percent during this period. Evidence for a confluence model of intense effects of sexually explicit materials on those with antisocial personality dispositions is also lacking in relation to findings for sex offenders' reported use of pornography, which generally either does not differ from or is lesser than that of controls (see, for example, Abel, Becker, & Mittleman, 1985;Becker & Stein, 1991;Goldstein & Kant, 1973;Langevin et al, 1988;Malamuth et al, 2001; for an exception see Marshall, 1988).…”