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Watching Porn Reduces Sex Crimes

Newspaper current event by gheorghe on 03 November 2006, tagged as psychology, sociology, and lawjustice

Two studies, one by Clemson professor Todd Kendal and the other by University of California professors Gordon Dahl and Stefano DellaVigna, apparently arrive to the counter-intuitive conclusions that watching pornography online (the former) and watching violent movies (the latter) actually leads to a decline in sex crimes and homicides, respectively.

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Crimes reduction, by AresCraft :: NR0

This can't be right. Studies were done to show that watching violent movies and such will increase the violence of the viewer. It's written in every psychology book.

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