October 2009 Conference: VI Harvard Course on Law and Economics
At: Cambridge (Massachussets, EUA)
Project: eHealth and Telemedicine
Abstract
The widespread availability of adult content on the Internet over the last several years has affected the sexual conduct of individuals, including conduct that is considered criminal. In our paper we model this criminal conduct and relate it to the exposition of explicit sexual conduct. Using a panel data approach for the provinces of Spain during the period 1998-2006, outcomes indicate that there is a substitution between rape and Internet pornography, while Internet pornography increases other violent sexual behaviors, such as sexual assaults.
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