Pornography and Violence
Pornography and Violence Throughout this semester, I have looked through our book and made a decision on the topic that interested me the most. ... After considering the increase in rape and molestation, sexual harassment, and other sex crimes over the last few decades, and also the corresponding increase of business in the pornography industry, does the media cause undesirable social consequences with specific reference to pornography and violence. ... As I grew older, I became more and more interested and involved in it, (pornography) became an obsession. ... Pornography was a means of unlocking the evil I had buried inside myself According to Edward Donnerstein, a leading researcher in the pornography field, the relationship between sexually violent images in the media and subsequent aggression and callous attitudes towards women is much stronger statistically than the relationship between smoking and cancer. After considering the increase of sex related crimes; the linkage between violence and pornography needs considerable study and examination. In order to properly discuss pornography, and be able to link it to violence, we must first come to a basic and agreeable understanding of what the word pornography means. The term pornography originates from two Greek words, porne, which means harlot, and graphein, which means to write. ... As time has passed, this definition of pornography has grown to include any and all obscene literature and pictures. ... Now that pornography has been defined in a fashion mirroring its content, it is now possible to touch upon the more complex ways a community, as a society, views or defines it. Some have said it is impossible for a group of individuals to form a concrete opinion as to what pornography means. ... supreme judge is quoted as saying, I cant define pornography, but I know it when I see it. ... Community standards are hazy due to the fact individuals cannot express or explain in words that pornography is, therefore creating confusion among themselves. ... The media had been bombarded with criticism, overwhelmingly from the female community, relative to the amount of sexually explicit material that is common argument against pornography is that the media portrays women as being nothing more than sexual playthings and objects to satisfy male sexual desires.