I doubt you will find credible sex crime figures that counter the USDOJ, but knock yourself out.
That quack you cited misstated the facts when he said:
"The rise in sexual crimes, sexual dysfunction and family breakdown may be linked to the increased availability and use of pornography."
Will your social scientist now say:
The fall in sexual crimes and family breakdown may be linked to the increased availability and use of pornography.
The atmosphere of self gratification has brought us less marriages generally and escalating rates of single women having children, regardless of the fact that fewer teens are having babies, the older women are doing it increasingly without men. You see, all this mysoginy is taking a toll in many interesting ways.
But the teens...the research is massive--no, not as many having babies--they are getting abortions almost drive-thru style. And they are alternatively supplying oral sex learned from the videos you love, the guys talk them into it, the girls want to be popular.
You and your ilk have taken away their defense in having an argument against degrading themselves to participate. To demand that boys show some respect and civil treatment to these girls instead of scarring them emotionally during their most tender years.
The girls are pressured not to be 'uptight', the girls want to be cool, they are impressionable as the young people they are.
Culturally more and more, the boys see a steady diet of females portrayed as degraded objects to serve male needs in the videos and adult sites they frequent --or sites their dad, or older brother visits that they co-opt.
The girls are suffering an onslaught of peer influence from boys that hear men like you say there is nothing wrong with it. The culture teaches them to dress like porn stars too, this is their worth.
So these little girls serve up their favors to be "popular"--on the bus, in the classroom, with multiple guys--it's an epidemic now. Oral cancer among non-smoking females under 20 is skyrocketing in the UK due to the STD HPV (Papilloma in the mouth) and thought to be transmitted via oral sex practices (will supply link if interested).
All of this is breaking down these kid's world and mine and yours.
Yeah, they got the message about not having babies, alright, but just not on wrecking their lives--check the stats on teen suicide these days.
So why marry when you are focused on shallow pursuits with available virtual sex and have decided the family is an overrated, too 'sacrificing of yourself', concept? It is all part and parcel of the decay brought on by an overly permissive culture.
See article below
More in America Putting Off Marriage
December 01, 2004 7:18 AM PST
WASHINGTON - It used to be common for men and women to get a marriage certificate not too long after collecting their high school diploma. Not anymore. Census Bureau figures for 2003 show one-third of men and nearly one-quarter of women between the ages of 30 and 34 have never been married, nearly four times the rates in 1970.
In 1970, only 6 percent of women 30 to 34 had never been married; the figure was 23 percent in 2003. The rate for never-married men in the same age group rose from 9 percent to 33 percent.
Among younger women, some 36 percent of those 20 to 24 had never been married in 1970; last year it was 75 percent. Among men in that age group, the change was nearly as dramatic: 55 percent in 1970 to 86 percent last year.
Meanwhile, societal pressures to marry before having children have decreased, said Thomas Coleman, executive director for the Glendale, Calif.-based Unmarried America, which also promotes equality for unmarried people. Among the group's concerns are tax policies which it contends are stacked against single people.
In 2003, nearly 35 percent of all births were to unmarried women, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. That's up from 11 percent in 1970, though the rate of increase has slowed since 1995, when 32 percent of births were out-of-wedlock. Births to unmarried teens have declined since the mid-1990s.
Meaghan Lamarre, 24, a research assistant in Providence, R.I., said she and her boyfriend of 10 months "are not in a big hurry to marry."
"There's no time frame of when to get married.... It's not a goal," said Lamarre, an Alternatives to Marriage Project member. "I'm not opposed to it, but I think I could live happily ever after without being married."
That kind of talk disturbs David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values, a New York-based pro-marriage organization.
Compared with 1970, Blankenhorn said, "There is a sense that marriage has a less dominant role in our society and is less influential as a social institution."