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According to the book Pork (alternative pdf version):

People who use pork are gradually influenced by its inherent sensuality; and when this trend influences the minds, shamelessness becomes the norm of the day; modesty and probity become old fashioned ideas which are discarded on the altar of sensuality and perversion.

QUESTION: This assertion is very very strange. How can you prove that pork creates shamelessness?

Author goes on to discuss swinging/wife swapping, insisting that eating pork causes this.

Let us divide the regions of the world in two groups: Pork-eating and non-pork-eating; and then see in which regions such shameful behaviour is ... In pork-eating areas you find Europe and Americas. And it is in Europe and Americas that you will find such promiscuity; and not in the non-pork-eating regions.

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pork-eating sociologists, doctors and psychologists lend a professional aura of respectability to adultery, promiscuity and sexual perversions ... It was this “Shamelessness” to which I had referred; and it is found in pig-eating societies only. What more proof do you need? These societies pull the humanity down to the level of wild beasts. Pig turns the man into pig.

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pork is extremely harmful not to the body only but to the mind also, no matter how hygienic the conditions in which pigs are kept now-a-days.

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    I've wiped the discussion to allow folks to focus on the *current* revision of this question... Reminder: please keep a civil tone and focus on comments that can bring clarity; [be nice](/help/be-nice). – Shog9 Dec 30 '16 at 21:29
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    OK -- this is clearly not working. The previous versions were closed because of good reasons, going back in that direction is not making the question better. Also, back-by-back argument won't make this question better. If the community feels this is not notable then they can vote to close (or reopen) accordingly. Also this can be discussed on [meta]. There are 13 flags, 80 deleted comments and 9 deleted answers. This community deserves everybody's respect and civility. – Sklivvz Dec 31 '16 at 01:08
  • Has someone told the Pork Producers Council about this? I sense a marketing opportunity here! Joking aside, how do you respect a question which, apart from being impossible to test, seems aimed at expressing attitudes which a lot of us consider to be sheer insanity? And FWIW, they were just as insane when expressed by the pork-eating Victorians &c. – jamesqf Jan 07 '17 at 06:36
  • @jamesqf I think it is falsifiable to a degree by finding societies that don't eat pork, yet are still promiscuous. – DavePhD Jan 07 '17 at 14:40
  • @DavePhD: Sure, you can do correlational studies - the Inuit, modern Israel, the pork-eating Victorians, a number of fundamentalist Christian groups who like their ham & bacon yet have similar attitudes to sex. But the real problem, I think, is that by doing so we'd be justifying the author's mental illness. – jamesqf Jan 07 '17 at 18:00
  • There is virtually nothing that _someone_ hasn't claimed to be an aphrodisiac... – keshlam Jan 08 '17 at 05:23
  • @keshlam This claim isn't about pork being an aphrodisiac. Instead, it is about pork causing people to have sex with people other than their spouses. Adultery, swinging, wife swapping. – DavePhD Jan 08 '17 at 15:52
  • The author doesn't seems to use very scientific based arguments, his position as a Islamic Scholar doesn't help either. I hate to use wikipedia to fact check things but here is the only place where I found info : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%27id_Akhtar_Rizvi – Dastardly Jan 12 '17 at 08:57
  • @LéonDonnet-Monay I didn't realize the author was so famous – DavePhD Jan 12 '17 at 11:28

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