Recall That Larry Baron and Murray Straus (1984)found a Positive

Recall that Larry Baron and Murray Straus (1984) found a positive correlation between the number of sexually explicit magazines sold in different states and the number of reported rapes in each of those states.Why did they refrain from concluding that exposure to pornography causes men to rape?

A) Rapists are not representative of the general population of men.
B) Other research has shown that men prone to rape actually prefer pornography.
C) Crime statistics underestimate the prevalence of rape.
D) A hypermasculine cultural pattern might well have caused both behaviors.