Dr Don Thompson, Victorian Barrister and Chairman of Forensic Psychology at Monash University in an address to the Victorian Criminal Justice Symposium says, “…pornography is causally related to sexually violent behaviour.”
- Victorian Crown Prosecutor Richard Read who deals regularly with pornography and sex crimes says, “There definitely is a very clear link between the two.”
- The Canadian Fraser Commission on Pornography and Prostitution found “commonly available, non-violent pornography had a substantially greater impact than violent pornography.”
- US Dept of Justice National Task Force on Child Exploitation and Pornography stated “The connection between pornography and violent sex related crimes, including the rape of women and molestation of children have been proven by scientific research and hard data. The connections between pornography and rape are no longer supposition.”
- Northern Territory Supreme Court Justice Sir William Kearney says, “People who think there is no connection between pornography and the violent and bizarre crimes that come before the courts ought to do the case studies.”
- Melbourne Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice O’Brien sentenced the rapist of a 12-year-old girl and stated, “Despite what some psychiatrists and others say, the danger of pornographic material becomes more apparent to those of us who have to deal with these crimes.”
- Inspector Sprague of the Spectrum Task Force in Melbourne set up to investigate the ‘Mr Cruel’ schoolgirl abduction, sexual molestation and murder says, “There’s a strong connection between pornography and the amount of sex crimes we get.”