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For every 10% increase in internet access in the US, there is a corresponding 7.3% decrease in rapes--and when porn was made legal in the Czech Republic , rapes declined by 37% in one year.

Fortunately, such maladaptive arousal patterns can often be indulged in harmlessly through fictional content. Contrary to a popular misconception, indulging in a fantasy through pornographic material makes whatever sexual impulse that fantasy indulges easier to suppress and makes a person less likely to act on that sexual impulse in real life.

Worse, studies have identified a rebound effect tied to the suppression of sexual thoughts: Suppressing a sexual thought increases the probability of subsequent preoccupation with that thought. Nevertheless, what choice do you really have when you know something that arouses you is immoral, maladaptive, and detrimental to society?

For example, 13% of males responding to our survey reported arousal at the prospect of hitting someone while only 8% of females did, 15% of males reported feeling turned on by tying someone up while only 7% of females did, and 7% of males reported feeling aroused by the thought of actually (not role-play) raping someone, contrasted with 3% our female survey respondents.

Finally, as we touched on when talking about inconvenient female arousal patterns, males are much more likely to be aroused by scenarios that involve them hurting another person.

One thing you often see in these other surveys is that most “inverse system” kinks (getting aroused by something a normal person would find to be gross or a turn off) are overrepresented in males. In general, males are way more likely to find things that would gross out the average person hot when contrasted with women.

This is scientifically dense and it's not a sexy book. I already have a ton of quotes and I'm only 25% in and don't feel like putting all of them in here.

This isn't something to speed read.

I'm going to quote the part about male fantasy that I'm currently interested in then put this on pause