Pornography is not as innocent as its supporters say

Published July 5, 2025 7:00am ET



With the Diddy trial winding down, pornography is in the spotlight, and the rapper’s apparent compulsion for explicit material puts him in bad company. What do Ted Bundy and Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger, for example, have in common? An obsession with violent pornography.

Did Diddy allegedly abuse women and Kohberger murder people because of viewing violent pornography? We can’t be 100% sure, but when we see a correlation between these men’s alleged crimes and their obsession with pornography, it is something that has to be taken seriously.

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