There is a widespread belief that the amount and intensity of offending content in pornography has increased. However, things do not seem to be that way .
Despite the ideological slogans that are repeatedly repeated from some media pulpits, consuming more violent fiction or more pornography does not generate more murderers , nor more rapists, nor an armament escalation towards an increasingly lewd and aberrant porn .
Analysis
According to a recent study that assessed whether the amount or popularity of transgressive content (violence, incest, or BDSM) had changed over a 16-year period of time, it was found that there was no significant increase in the amount of content with those topics or its popularity with consumers (measured by views per day).
These results, plus recent research presenting similar findings within pornographic videos, do not support popular perceptions that erotic material is becoming increasingly transgressive. Rather, such content appears to be relatively consistent .
Interest, at least on a gross search, doesn’t seem to have increased either . In fact, even a certain boredom is perceived, as we can see in Google Trends :
The phenomenon of pornography is not new, but its universal, free and easy to hide access is , and since its universalization, sexual crimes , including exhibitionism, rape and child abuse, have decreased .
Where pornography is more widely available, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased. If there are no previous physical, mental or psychological problems, practicing or consuming a lot of sex does not generate addiction, as Pere Estupinyà explains in his book S = EX2 :
And when there are previous problems that cause an obsessive and compulsive search for rewards, sex is usually the consequence and not the cause. In fact, in the scientific literature you can find cases of sex addicts who are also addicted to shopping, gambling or who have obsessions such as compulsively washing their hands.