Publishing a paper entitled “Psychological effects of nonconsensual sex between spouses” would count as informing rather than controlling; it would also be vastly less effective than making marital rape illegal, portraying characters who rape their spouses as horrible monsters, and shaming rapists.
I don’t think this is evident enough to be affirmed without supporting evidence. There’s evidence that such laws and shame-guilt-tripping might be much less effective than publishing a good comprehensive paper.
Prime example: Videogame piracy. Strong IP laws. Massive attempts at guilt-trip and manipulation of mass populace. Observed effect: No measurable effect of the laws and anti-piracy measures, and a continued growth of piracy. The growth is most likely attributable to other causes.
On the flipside, dev companies that have announced that they won’t do anything against piracy have seen considerable advertisement boosts from it and have on average enjoyed much greater success thanks to this.
I don’t think this is evident enough to be affirmed without supporting evidence. There’s evidence that such laws and shame-guilt-tripping might be much less effective than publishing a good comprehensive paper.
Prime example: Videogame piracy. Strong IP laws. Massive attempts at guilt-trip and manipulation of mass populace. Observed effect: No measurable effect of the laws and anti-piracy measures, and a continued growth of piracy. The growth is most likely attributable to other causes.
On the flipside, dev companies that have announced that they won’t do anything against piracy have seen considerable advertisement boosts from it and have on average enjoyed much greater success thanks to this.