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SALT LAKE CITY -- An anti-porn group is trying to draw attention to studies showing pornography increases violence against women.
Morality in Media and it's online campaign "porn harms" are in the middle of a four-week blitz that began on July 11.
According to the Deseret News, the group points to studies that show porn can lead to sexual violence because porn viewers need an increasingly deviant stimulus. Morality in Media also cites a Newsweek report that connects porn with violence and sex trafficking.
Some question the studies. Todd D. Kendalls, who was an assistant professor of economics at Clemson University in South Carolina, told the Christian Science Monitor the arrival of the Internet was associated with a reduction in rape incidence.
Porn Harms will hold an online discussion today at 2 p.m. on Facebook.
