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100,000; in 1977, 110 per 100,000. Throughout Denmark, in 1963, 173 women were raped; by 1978, with the restrictions off, 484, about three times as many, were raped. Another important fact to note about Kutchinsky's report is that he did not use rape statistics per 100,000; he used just those from this area of Copenhagen. He failed to say that the population of Copenhagen, during the period that he conducted his study, dropped from something like 698,000 to 585,000. Why did they drop? It was because the younger people were moving out of Copenhagen. When we look at statistics we have to look at them properly.
We have examples from all over the world of professional people who have shown harm. Dr Melville Anshell is one of the foremost psychologists in the world. He is a clinical psychologist who has studied approximately 240 sex offenders, 95 per cent of whom were male. The offences included every deviant sexual activity you could imagine. He said that in almost every case he found four situations occurring with these sex offenders. The first one was an addiction effect. Once involved in obscene materials they kept coming back for more and more. The second was an escalation effect. With the passage of time they required more explicit, rougher, more deviant kinds of sexual material to get their highs. The third was desensitisation. They became desensitised to the material, attacks on women and so on. The fourth was an increased tendency to act out sexually the behaviours viewed in the pornography.
Gary Humphries briefly spoke about Dr W. Marshall. It is important to make the point that the study was of consenting sex pornography - what is called non-violent here. He showed that almost half the rapists whom he studied used non-violent - as some people call it - erotica to arouse themselves preparatory to seeking out a victim to rape. He found that 19 per cent of the rapists used forced sex, sadistic bondage pornography to incite them to rape, while 38 per cent - twice that - used consenting sex pornography immediately prior to committing an offence. Why would they use consenting sex pornography if they wanted to rape someone? Mr Speaker, I seek an extension of time.
Leave not granted.
Suspension of Standing and Temporary Orders
Motion (by Mr Kaine) agreed to:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Mr Stevenson concluding his speech.
MR STEVENSON: The rapists whom Marshall studied reported a two to one preference for soft-core, consenting sex
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