[malandrew]

Society isn't getting more violent, despite the fact that the 10 o'clock news might lead you to think that. The incidences of violent crime have dropped steadily year after year since 1990, including forcible rape[1]. The internet was introduced in 1989, so the introduction of the internet coincides directly with the introduction of the medium which provides porn to most porn consumers.

This is only a correlation. No causation can be should. You could argue that the drop in rape incidents is attributable to better crime fighting technology that has put more serial rape offenders behind bars. It's anybody's guess as to the cause of lower incidents of forcible rape, but what you can't do is attribute greater incidents of forcible rape with the rise in porn because the actual historical figures simply don't support that conclusion, in fact they contradict it despite any self reports of hypothetical behavior might suggest.

I don't know the figures, but I imagine that most incidents of rape involve someone the victim knows and involves ambiguous circumstances such as both the victim and the accused being under the influence of alcohol or some other voluntarily consumed mind altering substance. For rape under those conditions, both the victim and accused are equally at fault, just like a drunk driver is responsible for a car accident. Driving your body into another under the influence is not really not that dissimilar from driving a car into another under the influence. Your approach of educating your daughters into making the right decisions and avoiding risky situations is the best weapon you have to combat the risk of rape.

[1] http://www.lowtechcombat.com/2010/12/50-year-trends-in-viole...