Alrighty, I see I’m-a have to break this down slowly cause they don’t offer an Intro to Psych class at your high school.

1. You and the guys you know are not a scientifically valid research sample. In social science, there is an actual science to designing an experiment. You need a statistically significant number of research subjects, for starters, and you need to screen them for various kinds of psychopathology to make sure they aren’t skewing your results. You also need a control group of subjects that you do something different with, in this case, a group of people that you don’t show porn to. Finally, when using human subjects, you have to run the whole thing past an ethics boards, and as noted elsewhere on this blog, ethics boards have a history of denying lab research in porn since negative effects have already been proven.

2. Beyond that, “I’m doing X and nothing bad has happened, therefore X is a healthy activity” is a laughably simplistic argument, and actually reminds me of my 6-year old standing on top of the couch insisting that she’s safe because she hasn’t fallen yet. I’d like to see you apply that logic to smoking or drunk driving, or tap-dancing on the edge of a cliff. Would you say, “Smoking is a healthy activity because I smoke and I don’t have lung cancer”? Would you say, “Drunk driving is a healthy activity because I’ve driven drunk and nobody died?” You are exactly one person, and you are not statistically significant by standards of social science.

3. Finally, how the fuck could I verify whether or not you and your friends are actual rapists? Literally, how could you prove that to me? Rapists will lie. You could be a lying rapist. I would have no way of knowing, and you would have no way to prove otherwise, short of providing me with the phone numbers of everyone you’ve ever had sex with. Furthermore, you and your friends could be the kind of bros who believe their behavior doesn’t fit the legal definition of rape. Lots of those out there. There’s a semi-famous study (someone will send me the link, right?) where they asked dudes “Have you ever raped a woman?” And most said No way. Then later they asked the same dudes, “Have you ever used physical force to get a woman to have sex with you when you knew she didn’t want to?” And the percentage of dudes who now said yes was significantly higher. What if you’re the kind of person who thinks it’s not rape if she was drunk, if she was asleep, if she’s already your girlfriend or wife?

You’re dismissed.