New Delhi: In an interview with CNN-IBN's Bhupendra Chaubey, Samajwadi Party National General Secretary Ram Gopal Yadav, blamed pornography for rising rapes in Uttar Pradesh, but a recent study by researchers from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, disagrees.
Titled, 'Sexual crime in India: Is it influenced by pornography?', the study published in the Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, aimed to examine the relationship between the consumption of pornography and the increase in sexual violence, in the Indian scenario.
The researchers tested the hypothesis that an increase in consumption of pornography is related to increased sexual crime.
The study explored the association between reported incidence of crime over a period of four decades - 1971-2008 and availability of pornography over the Internet and reached the conclusion that "easy access to pornography did not have a significant impact on rape rates and crime rate against women."
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