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What Porn Taught a Generation of Women

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Re: What Porn Taught a Generation of Women

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keernan wrote: post #10
yorwba wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Link to non-AI sources or it could be a hallucination. "Studies show" is an empty assertion if you can't read the papers to find out what it is they show.

I tell a painful story in a good faith effort to educate. My wife told me about this 30 years ago and that is when I did several years of research. So, just now it takes 20 seconds to run a check on AI which responds with the exact information I learned 30 years ago and your reaction is it is hallucinating, rather than expressing any empathy for the horrors of the reality.

I thought you might be able to provide me with those studies you're referring to so that I could've read them, but apparently not.

Re: What Porn Taught a Generation of Women

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Post by asmith76 »

keernan wrote: post #5
keernan wrote: post #4

My wife was raped by her grandfather repeatedly from age 8 until age 13. I learned this when she was 40 - she had never told anyone before. She then went into therapy for many years while I commenced years of research into sexual abuse. I learned there have been 100 years of studies all with consistent results confirming the same basic statistic: one of every three girls silently suffer with having been subjected to…

By way of editing my comment above, put another way: One third of your mothers are secretly hiding their experience suffering serious sexual abuse. And one third of your wives. And hopefully you will do something to prevent it from happening to one third of your daughters. And a point about the shame I mentioned. The abuse we are talking about is overwhelmingly not committed by a stranger. Rather we are talking about…

Thankfully 1/3 women is misleading. They find this statistic by dividing the population of women by the number of incidents of abuse. The problem with the stat is that one person is often abused multiple times.
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