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You say the golden age of porn started in 1969. The graph you provided shows the crime rate had started increasing by 1960, that it had almost doubled between 1960 and the start of 1969. So the crime rate was already increasing at a staggering rate for at least a decade during "the time in which porn was a taboo." That suggests, to me at least, that it was caused by something other than porn.I got you here. This is what really happened.
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The golden age of porn happened from 1969 - 1984. During this time, crime rate climbed almost continuously and has peaked near the end of the era. Once that era was over, Crime rate almost continuously dropped. The peak in 1992 for the contiguous US was a result of gang related issues in California such as the LA riots. America has never recovered to pre-1970 levels, the time in which porn was a taboo.
The crime rate has almost continuously dropped since the 1980s, but I highly doubt porn use has. In the 1970s, you had to drive to a theater and pay for porn, and in the 1980s, you could at best pay to rent it from a video store. Since the 2010s, almost every American adult has easy, 24/7 access to unlimited free porn from their smartphone or computer. Unless you have some data showing that porn use has decreased along with the crime rate, then there doesn't appear to be a strong correlation between porn use and crime rate. If you do have data showing that porn use has been decreasing for 30 years along with the crime rate, then I would question why government intervention is necessary when it's already trending in the right direction without them, even though it's never been easier to access.