Reducing Rape (through Porn)

Northwestern law prof Anthony D'Amato's new paper, "Porn Up, Rape Down," offers a thesis that we discussed on MoJ earlier this summer.  Here is the abstract:

The incidence of rape in the United States has declined 85% in the past 25 years while access to pornography has become freely available to teenagers and adults. The Nixon and Reagan Commissions tried to show that exposure to pornographic materials produced social violence. The reverse may be true: that pornography has reduced social violence.

He cites some statistics showing a strong correlation between internet access and a reduced incidence of rape, suggesting that perhaps "internet porn has thoroughly de-mystified sex." 

Rob