
CNN used misleading numbers to blow it way out of proportion. Any amount of people engaging in this is too many, but it’s less than one/ten-thousandth the people it’s made out to me. Motherless.com, a porn site with very poor moderation and advertised as being a place for more “out there” videos has 62million monthly visits. The vast majority of videos on that site are legal, but there are also a good amount of illegal videos because of said poor moderation. Some illegal videos were posted, and
…in the comments of those videos, a Telegram group chat was advertised. That group chat is the actual rape academy where all of this behavior took place, and it has around 1,000 members. While that is still a disgustingly large amount, it’s not 8% of English-speaking men like the it’s made out to be.
From what I can tell from googling. It’s bizarre a union of being mathematically illiterate and misandrist to theory that everyone who visited a certain porn website is training to be a rapist. It then while assuming all visitors are male (lol) and all visitors are from the U.S. (also ridiculous) that 40% of men in the U.S. are training to rape people. It’s misandrist propaganda from what I can tell that prays on people’s inability to think about frequencies and data.
I’ve seen mixed results in my initial review of papers some saying it increases certain certain self reported attitudes while more causal inference studies showing it decreases actualized assault rates. Given the Hawthorne effect, I’m not sure the literature shows what you suggest it shows.