by jenz » Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:57 am
HH, you have got very irate. Some of my info comes direct, from people to whom I have spoken, some from things I have read. <br> Before I dredge up references, which may take some time, (as I don't study this topic for a living, or entertainment, and so interiorise the substance of what I've read without reaching for the card files), I'd just like to aim a spanner at your statistics machine.<br><br>A fairly cursory look at the ra problem would show you that no one can have any accurate idea how many victims there are. This is because non investigation or debunking of reported crimes is more or less standard. Even where there has been good evidence that ra has been reported and investigated, but perps taken to court on lesser charges which prosecutors find easier to make stick, those in official capacity have somehow managed to bury the information deep, and so lose its statistical significance. That happened in the La Fontaine study, which is still being dredged up to disprove the existence of the problem of ra.<br><br> Also, ra is largely secret, hidden crime, silence enforced by horrendous punishment. Such a punishment has just been delivered to one whose case I have been slightly concerned with, despite our feeling reasonably sure we'd got her safe. Its a real issue, in the real world, which gets no statistical support.<br><br>Similarly, trying to assess the prevalence of the largely hidden crime of child abuse (as distinct from ra - a somewhat artificial distinction I know) is fraught with problems. So when anyone makes sweeping statements about prevalence in different societies, in order to draw inferences of connections with the sexual mores of those societies, I first of all want to look where they are coming from. <br><br>If you'd read my last post you would have seen that I acknowledge that those who have said they were drawn in via the 'slippery slope', may not be representative in their behaviour of all humans. But as we are talking about on the one hand the freedom of people to look at images, which they say have been produced without harming anyone, and on the other hand, a chasm of human suffering, I don't see why its out of bounds to consider that some of that looking might be helping to dig the chasm.<br><br>I don't actually want repressive censorship, but I do want the right to think about all of the paraphernalia which may contribute<br> actively or passively to the existence of ra.<br><br>ps. threat? <p></p><i></i>