Mass Media, Sex, And Pornography
It started by way of messengers and scribes, evolved through the
presentation of newspapers and radio, brought us together with television,
and now serves us world-wide via the ever-popular Internet. It is the
mass media, and even from the earliest days of its existence, it has
contributed greatly in ways that both enlighten and enrich society, and
ways that deteriorate and perplex it. It is not a surprise to learn, then,
that the mass media is the most powerful source of information we have,
and nothing else in today's world influences public perception quite as
heavily.
Unfortunately, however, most of what is broadcast or transmitted
in the news today is with reference to the ...
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against women. This assumption, and it is
indeed only an assumption, is completely fallacious, however, as no
concrete and completely conclusive evidence has ever been formulated in
support of the theory. The key premise here is that the mass media does
not cause undesirable social behaviour and in actuality, the media people
should not be dubbed as the “bad guys”. They simply use their power in
the most constructive ways possible in order to promote their ratings and
popularity. One way to do that is to concentrate on what sells: sex,
violence and disaster.
Having said this, why is it then, that many in society still
believe otherwise; why do they continue to believe that pornography is “
evil” and is a major cause for violence against women, specifically rape?
There are many reasons for this misinterpretation and through the
following few points, an attempt will be made to show that pornography has
very little to almost no correlation with violence against women ...
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community, relative to the amount of sexually explicit material
that is published in magazines and that appears on television and in the
cinemas. A common argument against pornography is that the media portrays
women as being nothing more than sexual playthings and objects to satisfy
male sexual desires. As before, the media once again, is not to be held
responsible for creating this image; these views are products of society.
It would be downright absurd to assume that women in this society
are treated as sexual objects only because the media releases or
broadcasts pornographic material. A magazine associated with make-up and
skin care, for example, will quite obviously ...
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