Violence And Pornography
Pornography -- Sex or Subordination?
In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged
by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young,
beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted
Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his
detention in various penitentiaries, he was mentally
probed and prodded by psychologist and psychoanalysts
hoping to discover the root of his violent actions and
sexual frustrations. Many theories arose in attempts to
explain the motivational factors behind his murderous
escapades. However, the strongest and most feasible of
these theories came not from the psychologists, but from
the man himself, “as a teenager, my buddies ...
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to unlocking the evil in more unstable minds?
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 stonger statistically than the relationship between
smoking and cancer” (Itzin 22). 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, the link between violence and pornogrpahy needs
considerable study and examination. Once the evidence you
will encounter in this paper is evaluated and quantified,
it will be hard not come away with the realization that
habitual use of pornographic material promotes unrealistic
and unattainable desires in men that can leac to violent
behavior toward women.
In order to properly discuss pornography, and be able
to link it to violence, we ...
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reduce her to something not human; such as a
body part or just something to have sex with, a body
opening or an orifice. Not only does ‘erotica’ show the
entire graphic sexual act, it also depicts an attraction
between two people. Her research consistently shows
that harmful effects are associated with the first two,
but that the third ‘erotica’, is harmless (22). These
three categories basically exist as tools of discerning
content. Although sometimes they overlap without a true
distinction, as in when the film is graphic in the
sexual act and also in violence, but shows the act as
being a mutual activity between the people
participating.
In my view, to further ...
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