Movies like this are....well......gross, be it a woman or a man. Personally I don't watch stuff like this. It makes me sick and gives me nightmares. I like the quote from Rose McGowan in that link. Something about it being a how-to book for future killers. I think that the imaginations that come up with this stuff should be used for something constructive and not thinking up of new twisted ways to torture and kill people. It is just plain sick.
I disagree to be honest, since the argument that porno films or exploitation cinema or whatever inspires murders and things is firstly, a scapegoat, and secondly, falls at the hurdle which assumes that people can't tell the difference between reality and fiction - and to be fair, people who are unable to do that are more than likely to be nutcases anyhow.
Let's see... Seong of Virginia Tech fame - he was a loner type, social misfit, didn't really fit in, not particularly capable of making his feelings known.
Kip Kinkel - Likewise, also a girl who he fancied had something to do with it, and his firearm obsession came from the fact that his parents were so authoritarian about having violent media in the house, it became to him
le fruit défendu if you will.
Michael Ryan (the Hungerford mass murderer.) - See above, social misfit, emotional problems.
Ian Brady/Myra Hindley -
Folie á deux which probably wouldn't have really set off had they not met each other. Still, he was arguably - and still is - a sick individual on his own merits.
Dylan Klebold/Eric Harris - Yes, they played violent video games and liked angry industrial music. But both of them were misfits and often blurred the line between fantasy and reality. Easy access to guns didn't really help either.
Now I'm not going to go into too much detail on this, for I'm certainly no social scientist.
Regarding scapegoatness, it's more politically convenient to blame death metal or violent video games or exploitation cinema for murder sprees and things than it is to bite the bullet and say, "Look here chaps. The guy was a mental. Isn't it clear from the circumstances? If he were well adjusted he would have been able to tell that the fiction presented on the film/game/song was, well, fiction, and that he would have known that emulating it is wrong." It also, let's be frank, sells more papers for the editor to blame such a thing, or to quote a "person of standing" (be it legal, political, scientific, religious, whatever) as claiming that.
I could hold forth for days solid on why the tabloid media is harmful, brain-melting drivel, but it'd be off topic. Needless to say, the above paragraph would figure in it.
Islamirama - Funny you should mention that, because although it's easy to scapegoat the instances of sexual assault and teen pregnancy in the US on porn and "indecency" in the media, but take Denmark. That's a country in which hardcore porn has been legal since the late 60s, which hosted the first cable porn channels, the first hardcore magazines, and suchlike, yet it's got some of the lowest rape and teen pregnancy rates in the world. Holland likewise. I know that correlation =/= causation, but doesn't that at least imply that they're just acknowledging and providing a legally regulated outlet for man's more animalistic instincts, rather than brushing it under the carpet or stigmatising it?
