Pornography
In the late seventies, Our Nation became shocked and outraged by the rape , multilation, and murder of a dozen young beautiful girls.The man who was mainly responsable for these murders, Ted Bundy, who was later apprehended and executed.During his detention in various penitentiaries,he was mentally probed and probbed by phycologist and phychoanalysts hoping to discover the root of violent actions and sexual frustrations.Many theories arose in attempts to explain the motivational factors behind his muderous escapades.However, the strongest and feasible of these theories came not from the phycologists, but from the man himself, "As a teenager,my buddies and I would all sneak around and watch porn.As I grew older,I became more and more intrested and involved in it,(pornography) became an obsession.I got so involved in it, I wanted to incorporate (porn) into my life, but I couldn't behave like that and maintain the success I had worked so hard for.I generated an alter-ego to fullfill my fantasies under-cover.Pornography was a means of unlocking the evil I had burried inside of myself "(Leidholdt 47).Is it possible that pornography is acting as the key to unlocking the evil in unstable minds?
Whicclair, Mark. R. "Feminism, Pornography and Censorship." Contemporary Morals Problems. Ed.James White. Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN: 1994. Pornography's main purpose is to serve as masturbatory stmuli for males and to provide a sexual vent.Although in the beginning,society saw it as perverted and sinful,it was still considered relatively harmaless.Today there is one case studie,standing out from the rest,that tends to shatter this illusion. The study done by Monica D.Weisz and Christopher M. Earls used "eighty-seven males.....that were randomly shown one of four films", by researchers William Tooke and Martin Lalumiere: "Deliverance, Straw Dogs, Die Hard II, and Days of Thunder", for a study on how they would react to questions about sexual violence and offenders after watching.In the four films there is sexual aggression against a male,sexual aggression against a female, physical aggression or sexual aggression.Out of this study the males were more acceptable of interpersonal violence and rape myths and also more attracted to sexual aggression.These same males were less sympathetic to rape victims and were noted less likely to find a defendant guilty of rape (71).These four above mentioned movies are mainstreamed R-rated films.If amainstream movie can cause this kind of distortion of value and morality, then it should become evident that continuous viewing/use of pornographic films depicting violent sex and aggression could lead vulnerable persons into performing or participating in sexual violence against their partners or against a stranger. Calvin Klein, once known for being a reputable clothing designer, is known for his racy ads using teens.Some feel he crossed the ligne when he chose this type of advertising.Jenish observes that these advertisements "featured an array of .....teen-aged models dressed in loose jeans or hiked-up skirts, one showing bare breasts, others offering androgynous models kissing"(36).If adults in position of power act this way, these youngsters cannot expect other adults to act any differently.Therefore they accept this type of behavior as normal. Nichols, Mark. "Viewers and Victims." Newsweek. 10 Aug. 1983: 60.
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