According to experts, the conclusions of these studies are wrong based on bad data sampling and incorrect scientific methods. In other words: this is junk science.
“Diamond and D’Amato correlate government stats over the last few decades showing that rape is decreasing while porn is increasing,” said Dr. Donald Hilton, a neurosurgeon and clinical associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center. “They make an indefensible error in jumping to causation from this data. By this reasoning, fertility rates are also decreasing over the same period.”
Dr. Hilton further explains the researchers used “notoriously unreliable government rape stats that have no scientific validity. They did not obtain this data themselves, but use politically nuanced numbers where police and government agencies are pressured to report lower data.”
Many studies, including Dr. Corey Rayburn Yung’s work last spring, have found that rape and sexual assault crimes are significantly under-reported.