Pornography and Sexual Violence By Thomas Bombadil

As the nation mourns the murder of young Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, one again hears outraged cries for the return of capital punishment for those convicted of murder, where the evidence is certain. But successive governments have remained deaf to the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the British people and there is nothing new about New Labour on that count.

At the same time, we have been repeatedly stunned by the recent upsurge in the frequency of rapes of our young women, which become more vicious and callous, even with the use of guns, something I never thought I would hear of in Britain. The country seems to be veering out of control with no one willing to take measures to reverse matters and to protect the innocent. While we in the British National Party would certainly listen to the British people and legislate stronger punishments for child molesters, rapists and murderers, we also recognise that we will need to give attention to the other causes of the upsurge in sexual violence and abuse shaming and shocking our society.

In particular, we need to take notice of the close correlation between the promotion of pornography and the prevalence of sexual violence and predation, which has been clearly established by researchers and police forces over the last few decades, as we shall see. Pornography has been normalised in Britain mainly by the mass media, and in particular by the newspapers corporations, through the casual use of pornographic photographs in newspapers. At the same time newspaper shops have stocked rows of clearly pornographic magazines in clear view of women and children. Moral standards have gradually but consistently been eroded and television companies now broadcast channels wholly devoted to pornography into British homes. If governments allow media tycoons to morally corrupt the population, then we cannot be surprised if our women and children are not safe.

Correlation between porn and rape

It is established that there is a huge relation between the use of pornography and the perpetration of sexual violence. What this means is that the pornography which the media has normalised encourages people to commit sexual violence against the vulnerable. It encourages them to see others as there to be used for sexual "pleasure". It encourages them to see sex as being purely for pleasure with no responsibilities attached - something just there to be taken. Once people become addicted to this parasitical mindset, it is only a small step for them to attempt to actualise the casual sexual use of other people which they have fantasized, to rape and abuse the vulnerable, women and children. Let us survey some of the evidence to back this up.

In their studies, Dr. Dolf Zimmerman and Dr. Jennings Bryant found that

large exposure to pornography causes a desire for increasingly deviant porn that involves violence, like rape.(Ref.1) Hence, pornography causes deviant and violent perversions, as well as encouraging people to act upon them as predators. A study of convicted child molesters in Ontario, Canada revealed that 77% of molesters of boys and 87% of molesters of girls admitted that they regularly used hard-core pornography. (Ref.2) Again, of 1400 cases of child molestation in Louisville, Kentucky, between 1980 and 1984, pornography was connected with every incident and child pornography with the most of them.(3) Moreover, police have established the consumption of pornography to be one of the most common characteristics of serial murders and rapists(4) Again, Psychotherapist David Scott, found that "half the rapists studied used pornography to arouse themselves immediately prior to seeking out a victim."(5) So it is clear that the use of pornography is closely related to sexual violence.

And there is clear evidence of the correlation between the availability of porn and sexual crime. The liberalization of laws about pornography in Britain, the United States, Australia, and the Scandinavian countries has been accompanied by a rise in rape rates; whereas in countries where restrictions have been adopted, rapes have decreased.(6) And Larry Baron and Murray Strauss of the University of New Hampshire found that in the US, states with high circulation rates of pornography have high rape rates, while rape rates tended to be low in states with low circulation rates.(7) So it is clear that the more a country allows pornography to be available, the more it will suffer rapes and the abuse of children. This being so, we can only consider as insane and intolerably irresponsible, as well as sick, the decision of the US Supreme Court of April 16 of this year to legalise child pornography where the images of the children are computer-generated. How many more of our children and young women will be abused and murdered before our governments will say NO! to the lucrative porn racket?

 Richard Desmond porn baron

Britain's "porno king" is New Labour donor!

The main pornographer in Britain is Richard Desmond and has been for some time. Desmond owns the Daily Express, Sunday Express and the Daily Star, which he bought in November 2000, which shows just the sort of exploitative filth who are allowed to control the media in Britain. Desmond is a "Porno King" who made his personal fortune of £150 million selling pornography. He owns half the porno magazines distributed in Britain, as well as porno satellite stations broadcasted into British homes, and perverted "sex" sites on the internet. He has made his fortune flooding our country with pornography, corrupting people and thereby encouraging the abuse and murder of the vulnerable. He has thereby participated in the crimes of many. He has been assisted in this by successive governments. It recently transpired that Desmond had donated £100,000 to the Labour Party, and it was suggested that this was in return for them not opposing his acquisition of Express Newspapers. Blair invited the pornographer over to tea the day the acquisition went through.

We in the British National Party can assure the British people that when we have taken our country back for them, we will take a much dimmer view of pornographers and their destructive trade. Holly and Jessica, we will do it for you.

1. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1981.

2. Dr. William Marshall, Use of Sexually Explicit Stimuli by Rapists, Child

Molesters and Non-Offenders, 25 Journal of Sex Research 267, 1988.

3. Testimony by John B. Rabun, deputy director, National Center for Missing

and Exploited Children, before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the

Senate Judiciary Committee, 12 September 1984.

4. "The Men Who Murdered," FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, August 1985.

5. David Alexander Scott, "How Pornography Changes Attitudes," in

Pornography: The Human Tragedy, ed. Tom Minnery (Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale

House Publishers.)

6. Cass R. Sunstein, "Pornography and the First Amendment," Duke Law

Journal, September 1986.

7. Larry Baron and Murray Strauss, "Legitimate Violence and Rape: A Test of

the Cultural Spillover Theory," Social Problems 34, December 1985.

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