Pornography
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Pornography
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 and I would all sneak around and
watch porn. As I grew older, I became more and more interested 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 fulfill my
fantasies under-cover. Pornography was a means of unlocking the evil I had
buried inside myself" (Leidholdt 47). Is it possible that pornography is
acting as the key 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 stronger
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
pornography 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 lead to violent behavior
toward women. In order to properly discuss pornography, and be able to link it
to violence, we must first come to a basic and agreeable understanding of what
the word pornography means. The term pornography originates from two Greek
words, porne, which means harlot, and graphein, which means to write (Webster's
286). My belief is that the combination of the two words was originally meant to
describe, in literature, the s...
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