There is also a study of how availability of porn in general affected sex crime after the 1989 revolution in Czechoslovakia. Tl;dr aside from an uptick right after (which can be attributed to the country no longer being a police state) both child abuse and rape dropped, while other violent crime has not.
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dreamy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours agoIt’d seem that there isn’t really that much research in this area. This is the only article I could find directly related to child SA, with a helpful conclusion:
In this work, we have established how people with attractions to children are seeking sexual satisfaction using a range of different forms of FSM depicting children. We found no evidence that engaging with sexual fantasy and various forms of FSM was associated with variance in self-reported willingness to engage in sexual offences involving children, despite substantial numbers in our sample expressing a willingness to engage in these behaviours. Instead, we found that those who were more sexually satisfied reported a lower level of willingness to engage in such behaviours, while those who held offence-supportive beliefs reported a higher willingness. We urge researchers and clinicians to use our work as a springboard for further studies on the pursuit of sexual satisfaction, the addressing of sexual frustration. All of this should be conducted within the context of reducing potential risk, while encouraging a more evidence-informed social conversation about the importance of sexuality considerations in this area.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/…/19419899.2026.2619511#d…
Though I think that banning lolicon drawings would just make pedophiles go and consume actual child pornography, which is arguably worse.
Klear@piefed.world 1 hour ago
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app 3 hours ago
Obviously
thepig@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Makes sense. As a clinical psychologist I am often frustrated by the lack of proper research done of pedophiles, I get it that is a very sensitive and disgusting matter for the population but we need data to identify and help this people before they commit crimes, just pretending they don’t exist and waiting for the crime to happen is not helping anyone.
workerONE@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You can’t exactly have a scientific test to see if the loli test group diddles more kids than the control group.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
There’s a lot of research being done about the president of the USA tho
Jacob_Mandarin@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I dont know if that will give you any usefull data though. His narcissism and dementia might make it hard to know what behaviours are due to pedophilia.
Though those symptoms might be related.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
They have an island-worth of resource to study!
Dookieman12@piefed.social 42 minutes ago
I really hope you understand why. That “data” you’re referring to is adults having sex with children. “Research” in this context involves adults allowing other adults to have sex with children so we can ask them questions about it.