Wow, I didn’t realize domestic violence was such a big problem Up North.
OK, OK, I’ll quit beating myself up!!!
Poor girl…
Any idea how this compares to the US?
The UK has a domestic violence murder rate of two a week, so a similar rate to Canada. I don’t see why the US would be significantly different on a per-capita basis.
NOW has what would seem to extropalate to fairly similar per capita stats.
It puts the maple syrup on its skin or it gets the hoser, eh?
according to this American site, the Family Violence Prevention Fund:
Some back-of-the-envelope calculations:
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3 deaths per day in the U.S. = 21 per week in the U.S.
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the U.S. population is roughly ten times that of Canada.
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21 deaths per week divided by 10 = 2.1 deaths per week;
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which is roughly the same number as that cited by the OP for Canada: 1 or 2 per week.
Which is not meant in any way to downplay the issue - simply that the OP’s thread-title seems to think the Canadian rate is higher than in other countries.
Wow, RO against a whole country. Well it’s not really RO. Whatever.
Anyway, I didn’t see an operating definition of “physical or sexual violence,” on that website, so until I do, I’m not convinced of anything.
For the US, this article shows that 0.04% of Americans have been raped, or 1 in 2500 people.
It’s not really relevant, but the article is actually very interesting. It claims that the 85% reduction of rape in the US over the last 30 years is either caused or correlated by the influx of porn since the 70s.
You are a bad, bad, bad person.
Just terrible.
No - I was just surprised, I thought we in the U.S. had a bigger problem w/violence against women (and violence in general) than Canada. I thought they were supposed to be more mellow than us.
It’s ironic because about a month ago we were at a party hosted by a Canadian couple, and his parents and siblings were there – and I was really surprised by their subtle misanthropy. The women were docile, the men were drunk. And apparently quite bigoted (the kids and I left as the drunkenness set in, so I missed those rants). I wondered if they were unusual, as Canadians, or representative of the rural town from whence they came. Perhaps they were.
Do they cut off their feet, too?
Yeah, I think it’s entirely reasonable for you to think that your encounter with one Canadian family is representative of an entire nation of people.
Bwahahahahaaa!! 
Well, to be fair, he was only there for 120 minutes, and by my calculations based on my knowledge of the population of Canada, he should have seen at least 8 rapes.
Obviously, the Canadians were on their best behavior.
Bwahaha! That is some laughably bad social science. What other societal changes have occurred starting in roughly the 1970s? He completely ignores the Pill, legalized abortion, and general changes in social mores which lowered the penalties/ risks for women to engage in consensual sex. If availability of porn reduces the motivation to rape, imagine what the availability of actual sex with women could do!
The paper applies a certain legal logic that attempts to make the best case for its argument by selectively presenting facts. Maybe there’s some greater nutjob out there correlating the decline in rape rates with improved automotive gas mileage or declining long-distance phone rates.
I don’t know about that. Porn keeps me from raping my wife, so I’ve got that going for me.
Your wife does porn?
Ha. I was jokingly referencing the “death of sex” that is marriage.
TBH, we don’t have much sex anymore, because we don’t want anymore children, she can’t seem to find a pill that doesn’t make her sick, I refuse to get a vasectomy, and condoms are a middling proposition for a married guy at best.
I mean, I thought that when I got married it meant I didn’t need those rubbers anymore!
Boy was I wrong!
Well, since you won’t, can I have sex with your wife? 