HAVING RECOURSE TO AGGRESSIVE PORNOGRAPHY AND SEXUAL ABUSE - AN APPARENT OR REAL RELATION?

This article makes a review of previous studies engaged mainly to prove the pornography - aggression relationship. Question asked the most frequently in these studies, connected with the problem of pornography consumption, was the following: is pornography able to lead to antisocial behavior against women? This article attempts also to analysis obtained results (experimental outcomes and statistical data came from sexual crime statistics made for countries in which pornography is not restricted). According to this analyse, it is possible that, so far, we do not have fully convincing evidence to prove the main thesis - that pornography really provokes changes in men’s attitudes and behavior towards women