Fact Sheet 86% of studied rapists used pornography regularly.                         ~ Dr. William Marshall of Queens University and                         Kingston Penitentiary Sex Offenders Program. In a study of Child Molesters in southern California, Dr. Michael Goldstein found that 87% indicated that pornography had stimulated them to commit sexual acts with children.”                         ~The Center for Decency, Pornography Fact Sheet, 2001 According to a number of studies, there is a “direct relationship between the circulation rates of sex magazines [in a state] and rape rates.”                         Just Harmless Fun? By Bruce Watson and Shyla Rae Welch                         Copyright © Enough Is Enough, 2000 When Oklahoma City banned hard-core pornography, the city’s reported rapes dropped by 27% over the next five years, while reported rapes in rest of the state rose by 19%.                         Land Use Study of Oklahoma City, 1984-89 “Rapists are 15 times more likely as non-offenders to have had exposure to ‘hard-core’ pornography before the age of 10.”                         ~Leigh Ann Metzger, “Understanding the Problem of Pornography,”                         Pornography Committee Report Project “Pornography is not about free speech.”                         ~Tonya Flynt-Vega, daughter of Hustler magazine founder Larry Flynt Pornography is the third largest revenue builder for Organized Crime.                         Impact From Pornography, Houston Area Association for Decency , 2002 “Pornography [is] a "how-to manual" for the abusers.”                         ~ Susan Carpenter McMillan, legal counselor and political activist ‘The                         pornography tradeshow’, WorldNetDaily, 1999 by Eunice Van Winkle                         Ray© 1999, WorldNetDaily.com Studies show that when normal college males are shown pornography, 50-65% of them then say they would be willing to rape if they thought they wouldn’t get caught.                         ~ Dr. Layden “Research indicates that 59% of sex-addicted males will suffer severe financial consequences due to their compulsion…with some losing all of their savings and earnings.”                         ~ Dr. Mary Anne Layden, Ph. D., Director of Education, Center for                         Cognitive Therapy Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania,                         Philadelphia, PA; and Director, Social Action Committee for Women's                         Psychological Health, Philadelphia