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Originally Posted by freakonaleash
Also, I'd like to comment on Japan, where the low incidence of sexual assaults recorded is all about the system of reporting crimes and prosecuting offenders being extremely poor, and their general public acceptance of glamourising the sexual element of the very young. It would take a big shift in attitude towards women and girls to start to get a realistic picture of sexual crimes in Japan, and many other countries besides.
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Agree. It's so easy to say that Japan has little reported sexual assault and produces tons of violent sexual media, so there is no correlation between assualt and exposure to violence, but you totally aren't considering the cultural differences between a country like the UK and a country like Japan, where the concept of real sexual equality is in its infancy and lots of women wouldn't report a sexual assault. It's just like saying that because crime rates in the UK are up, society has gone to shit, when really the fact that reported crime has increased is ace because it means that less people are getting away with it than there previously would have been.
I'm not saying that the above implies that there is a correlation between sexual assault and exposure to media depicting sexual assault, just saying that your point about Japan is not valid.