Banning Pornographic Magazines

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(Bartelli b01). Was this principal simply a victim of a society overwhelmed with pornographic material? Does pornography have an effect on one's psyche?
Gene McConnell, a former pornography addict says, "we live in a sex-saturated culture that reduces women to little more than body parts and distances us from what we desire most...an intimate relationship" (Webb pg). McConnell now lectures across the country on the 'power of porn,' after serving prison time for an attempted rape that he claims was provoked by years of reading pornographic magazines. After he was arrested for attacking a woman in a parking lot, he realized what pornography does to men and women (Webb pg). At a recent lecture, McConnell said, "I'm not saying that everyone who consumes porn will be a rapist, but everyone in this room is affected by it" (Webb pg). McConnell began reading pornography when he was twelve years old, and by sixteen had molested his fourteen year old sister. His addiction ...

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or sell any obscene material...also prohibits anyone from promoting, selling or performing child pornography" (Pornographic 01). In New York City, Council Speaker Peter Vallone called for enforcement of a state law banning the sale of adult magazines to people under seventeen years of age. Vallone said, "There's a clear correlation between these kinds of materials in the hands of minor and violence-sexual violence in particular" (Polner A37). Assisted by four sixteen year-old interns and volunteers, the city council discovered that children were allowed to buy pornographic magazines without being asked for proof of age, in forty-three of fifty stores, eighty-six percent (Polner ...

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