> These seem like difficult things to prove. How do they
> go about it? How do they prove that the sort of people
> who would watch porn, wouldn't be the sort of people
> who would objectify women and be apathetic about
> sexual violence? What controls do they use? How come
> Britain is worse in these regards (being until
> recently a country with a lot of censorship) than the
> Netherlands, or Sweden (where there is very little)?
No one can prove this "link" exists across the board -- too many types of people, attractions, likes and dislikes, psyches and emotions to come to any definitive answer of how porn affects the mind. Depends on the person, that person's background, emotional and intellectual stability, and so on. What I resent -- indeed mock -- is this concept that porn has this magical power to transform people and make them act in ways they normally wouldn't. Porn is, primarily, a wank-off tool, nothing more. The vast majority of its consumers see it and use it this way and do not go off assaulting women.
DP