Overview:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170221121328/http://aurora.umn.edu/pdf/ResearchOnPornography.pdf
Are there realistic policy changes that could address some of these issues?
Defenders of pornography often describe that in the decades after its legalization in the United States, rates of rape conviction fell by two thirds, but they almost always fail to engage the problematics around such statistics referring to rape convictions with the common feminist criticism/observation that the vast majority of sexual assaults do not result in conviction, prosecution, or even official report by the victim. The falling rate of rape convictions should be contrasted with reported rates of rape in other surveys during the same historical time period. During the decades of societal mainstreaming of pornography, what specifically declined were rates of reporting sexual violence and disciplining sexual violence, not occurrence of sexual violence.