My latest Casualty Report has recent statistics on pornography and its affects on society. The title of the article comes from the hypothetical scenario I draw of an alien that visits Earth and found that in one year humans watched 4.6 billion hours of pornography. The majority of pornography involves violence or verbal aggression toward women, and studies have shown that after viewing pornography men are less likely to be sympathetic toward victims of sexual violence or to consider sexual violence a problem.
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