AliEnvy
Refugee
A_Wanderer said:For a mark of reference 1976 was hardly the beginning of the sexual revolution.
No but the 70s did mark the beginning of significant pressure from the feminist movement against the violent and degrading depiction of women in porn.
A_Wanderer said:If the rates of reporting decreased then actual rapes may even have increased.
I guess I would like to know how reporting rates are measured and how they may be related to how women view date rape.
I think I can generally accept that rape has declined more or less due to the empowerment of women's sexuality over time. On the surface that's good news.
But on the other hand, I'd like to know how those decreases compare to domestic violence rates...which I think (but haven't researched) have gone UP dramatically over the same period.
The violence towards women as a power struggle has just shifted in nature perhaps?