Dear RG members, I would highly appreciate any new research, views or experience relating to the nexus between pornography and sexual violence. Not having read up on this for a while, I am concerned about the unequivocal promotion of pornography on prominent South African radio stations and what I deem unethical advice offered to listeners. All this happening in a country with high levels of violence against women and children. In my current research I have also found a clear link between human trafficking and the production of amateur porn. I want to respond to this issue and therefore busy preparing myself for an ensuing discussion. For more info, kindly listen to this broadcast:
https://omny.fm/shows/mid-morning-show-702/south-africa-s-love-for-porn
I think the literature on this is somewhat ambivalent Marcel. As far as I am aware there is no evidence for pornography being an antecedent to sexual violence. However, an interest in pornography with violent or masochistic themes may also reinforce cognitive distortions, mysogynistic attitudes and tolerance of sexual violence - See the Hart, Kropp and Laws, Klaver, Logan and Watt "Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP)":
Quayle has found some evidence of potential for male down loaders of child abuse images to progress to contact offences but this is not a given in every case.
I think you would need to consider the use of pornography as part of a constellation of behaviours and cognitions rather than in isolation as contributory factor in sexual violence.
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