Attachment # 2

Kutchinsky, Berl: Pornography and its effects in Denmark and the United States. Comparative Social Research, vol. 8, p. 301, 1985.

The anti-porn lobby keeps saying that pornography is dangerous because it inspires people to commit sex crimes. But the truth is exactly the opposite: pornography is used as a substitute for frustrated people who might otherwise lose self-control and go out and commit a crime. This is shown very clearly by statistics. The rate of serious sex crimes against children fell remarkably in Denmark in the 1960's when pornography became available.

Criminological research has shown that this dramatic fall in sex crimes is real. It cannot be explained as a change in the propensity to report such crimes. There can be no doubt that pornography prevents crimes.