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'According to the study by Todd Kendall, an economics professor at Clemson University, “the arrival of the internet was associated with a reduction in rape incidence.”'

Columnist Bob Dyer said that forcible rape in America declined 30 percent in the past 15 years, which corresponds to the time the Internet--and online pornography--became popular.

This is reflected in Japan, which has probably more violent porn per capita than any other nation, yet has one of the world's lowest reported rates of sexual violence.

Of course some have and will continue to disagree by using the old "rape has nothing to do with sex it's about power and control" bit. Well, if you don't think rape has anything to do with sex, you need to get that talk from Dad. Sex and rape both mean certain body parts connecting with other certain body parts, whether those parts are willing or not, you know? But let's face it, if a man gives it up over a photo, drawing or video, he's given it up.

And if it is true that viewing images and videos, whether of real people or not, leads to a decrease in sexual violence? Let's hope to God or Goddess or Allah or Whoever You Worship that the United States doesn't outlaw fictional depictions of sexual acts involving fictional people who fit the same categories of those very real and vulnerable people they want to keep protected from sexual violence.

See the story we got this from, which came out a while ago but we missed it, at http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/online-porn-linked-to-reduced-incidence-of-rape_100150446.html

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"Students at two elementary schools in Chino Hills have been attending summer school for nothing."

The California Legislature rejected the effort by Dickson Elementary and Rolling Ridge Elementary schools to make up for "missing time" that was never missing.

Both schools fulfilled the state-required number of school hours--except that, because their Friday sessions were mistakenly a few minutes short, they didn't count at all. So to avoid losing millions of dollars in state funding, the schools hurriedly tacked on 34 extra days of school.

The legislature was supposedly working hard to correct the school district's mistake and their own misguided law, but they didn't. Instead, they're using it as an opportunity to refuse to give those schools $5 million to which they were otherwise legally entitled. In addition, the schools are out all the extra money they spent on summer school days that aren't being counted.

Hopefully a bill to fix this legal threat to education will fix the equation:

School district mistake + California legislature mistake = punishing the kids and the schools.

Welcome to California.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/inland_empire&id=6908380

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