Yes its what you have all been wanting to hear. Its kinda like being told that burgers and cream cakes are good for you.

We all know that the lab tests show that watching violent movies and videos will cause certain viewers to act out their wanton violence onto the community.

A study conducted by the University of California using real world data as opposed to most studies using lab data found you get a wild correlation that says due to violent movies showing in theaters, you pull violent crime offenders off the streets and stop them hitting people. So instead of committing these crimes the potential offenders would instead be watching the show. But what happens when the movie finishes? You would assume that the movie violent goers would leave and resume their violent ways but in reality for up to 6 hours after the violent movie finishes crime is reduced more in fact than when they were watching the movie!

The actual numbers explain more and paint a better picture about how these conclusions were drawn. The biggest time for movie showings is 6PM - 12AM, and it is at this magical time that every one million violent movie patrons seems to reduce crime during this time by 1.1 to 1.3 percent. After people leave the movie, the time-frame of 12AM to 6PM sees an even more drastic drop in violent crime. Interesting to note is that the actual violence isn’t the only thing being focused on that reduces violent crime but the lack of other extracurricular activities. It is said that while patrons are in a movie, they aren’t consuming alcohol thus fueling their violent behaviors. Violent MoviesBasically, you’re throwing the dog a t-bone steak while you get a good look around the junkyard. The actual crimes that are said to be reduced during a weekend with a popular violent movie is estimated to be 1,000 violent crimes a weekend. That’s a reduction of 52,000 violent crimes a year, assuming Hollywood can crank out enough violent films to keep everyone occupied. If you want a more in depth look at the full study you can access the PDF version from University of Rochester here.

OK so what about porn then? Again this is no lab research but real world data. This research was compiled by a former consultant to President Nixons Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. Professor Antony D’Amato reached the following conclusions, firstly that there has been an 85% decrease in sexual violence in 25 years. This stat was released by the US Department of Justice. The exact figures state that there were 2.7 rapes for every 1,000 people in 1980. By the time 2004 rolled around, the same survey found rape had decreased to 0.4 per 1,000 people.

The interesting detail looked at was the internet access in the crime areas. States that had least amount of Internet access statewide had an increase of rape over the 20 year period. Rape crimes in low Internet access states hit a 53% increase. States that had the most Internet access had a 27% decrease in rape cases.

So keep viewing all the violence and porn with an easy consience.