I'm quite certain the people performing this "study" had already made up their minds before loading the first video
It sounds like you've also made up your mind before reading it. How about taking a look and making some counter arguments to their findings so that people who disagree can argue on that basis rather than the basis of your speculation?
Are we clutching pearls? 90% of the popular porn videos show taboo fantasies centered around--at the very least--spanking women. Is that not interesting? We don't need to clutch our pearls to make note of that and to discuss what it means. Pornography is very taboo as you've alluded to, but HN is for me a place where we can discuss anything that we find intellectually stimulating.
I find it very interesting for sure that depictions human sexuality is apparently almost always in some small way also depicting violence against women. I find it disappointing that so many here want to write off the simple mention of that fact as "moral panic" and discuss it no further.
> Even for the "genuine" cases
What do you mean be genuine cases?
Do you have any points to make that could be argued against or do you just want to scaremonger? I could equally well say "There's a large pro-porn contingent on HN" and then leave it at that, but instead I've shared an article and some reasearch that I'm happy to discuss.
Well, the fact that the title is "90% of online pornography" but from the actual study, it talks about 90% of the top 50 watched videos, so we've gone from "90% of pornography" to "45 videos".
> I could equally well say "There's a large pro-porn contingent on HN" and then leave it at that
Well, there is.
Yes, the 45 most watched videos. They also analyse the metadata of millions of related videos. The headline is of course not the whole study. What do you think might be a better headline? I would welcome a debate on the basis of that one.
> Well, there is.
Yes, that's a tautology.
i don't think you've established a rationale for the discussion you are hoping for.
Which represents what percentage of pornography watching? Or rather: what fraction of a percent of pornography watching?
> Personally I don't see the significant material difference between 90% of the 50 most popular videos depicting violence against women and 90% of all porn videos depicting the same. I'm happy to hear why you might disagree though.
Well, "90% of pornography" is millions of videos. So at the very least, the material difference between them is again, literally millions of videos.
> Altneratively: What do you think might be a better headline? I would welcome a debate on the basis of that one.
It's a 200 page report written in French. I have no idea.