After a series of highly publicized and particularly gruesome gang rape incidents in India, beginning with:
The gang rape of a 23-year old student on a public bus, on 16 December 2012, sparked large protests across the capital Delhi. She was with a male friend who was severely beaten with an iron rod during the incident. This same rod was used to penetrate her so severely that the victim's intestines had to be surgically removed, before her death thirteen days after the attack;
a study found that 40% of Indian young people watch “rape porn” regularly, organization Rescue said, based on a sample survey it conducted covering 200 undergraduate male students across 10 colleges. According to their survey, 76% of the surveyed students said that watching pornography involving rape led to the desire to rape; 47% of these students ended up watching child porn. One of the studies’ directors said: “All of the students were already watching porn, 50% of them were now watching violent porn. Watching pornography is a progressive addiction. When it no longer satisfies you, you turn to violent porn or child porn.”
In India, the rape-porn connection is important because many of these high-profile crimes involved not a single perpetrator, but an actual gang-rape. This is significant, because in the vast majority of violent porn, women are raped by a group of men. The last major gang-rape incident in India happened in May 2014 when two girls aged 14 and 16 were gang raped in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The girls were then murdered and hanged from a tree.