Some data can be gathered on pedophiles that doesn't involve arrests or threat of arrests, since having pedophilia itself is not illegal, but only various forms of acting on it is. It would be similar to research into other socially stigmatized things, parallel say to trying to research those interested in bestiality porn which outnumbers those that actually commit bestiality.
But which way individual studies go isn't the point, since they are all over the board on such issues, the point is it is a mess and there are still a lot of big issues and holes unaddressed. If such studies are so messy, data hard to accurately collect, etc., why do people on both sides so adamantly use cherry picked studies to defend their side then? If the impact of such pornography is uncertain, maybe it shouldn't be made to be a frontline of the battle against child molestation, and efforts put towards better understood approaches.
For such important cause of helping children, people in general seem awfully cavalier about what they attack, ignoring if they are helping or hurting.
Some data can be gathered on pedophiles that doesn't involve arrests or threat of arrests, since having pedophilia itself is not illegal, but only various forms of acting on it is. It would be similar to research into other socially stigmatized things, parallel say to trying to research those interested in bestiality porn which outnumbers those that actually commit bestiality.
But which way individual studies go isn't the point, since they are all over the board on such issues, the point is it is a mess and there are still a lot of big issues and holes unaddressed. If such studies are so messy, data hard to accurately collect, etc., why do people on both sides so adamantly use cherry picked studies to defend their side then? If the impact of such pornography is uncertain, maybe it shouldn't be made to be a frontline of the battle against child molestation, and efforts put towards better understood approaches.
For such important cause of helping children, people in general seem awfully cavalier about what they attack, ignoring if they are helping or hurting.