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Violence And Pornography - Essays

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, ÿas a teenager, my buddies ...

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as the key to unlocking the evil in more unstable minds?
According to Edward Donnerstein, a leading researcher in the pornography
field, ÿthe 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 cancerÿ (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 ...

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Added: 10/13/2008 12:52:21 PM
Category: Social Issues
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