THE CASE AGAINST PORN

I quote from an excellent article on http://www.erasethedark.com/ourcase.html

"Every hour in America, sixteen women will encounter a rapist.  Since 1960, rape has risen 500%, and it is reported once every forty-six seconds.  One in eight women will be raped at least once.  Comparatively, in a study of convicted rapists, 86% of the rapists admitted to routine use of pornography, while 57% said that they would actually mimic specific pornographic scenes while raping a woman.

Pornography has grown into a thirteen billion dollar a year industry, and it exceeds the combined revenues of America’s foremost sport franchises--baseball, basketball, and football.

The dual proliferation of pornography and rates of rape in America are not coincidental.  Pornography, rape, and other acts of injustice directly coincide; it is time for the dark perception in society that says pornography is a victimless crime and harmless freedom to be erased."

Go to http://www.erasethedark.com/ and learn about the dangers of pornography to women.  Thankfully, there are great women out there winning battles for women, such as the recent ban on violent pornography in the United Kingdom (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/5297600.stm).

Pornography is vile and disgusting, degrades women, and further legal attention may be needed for women.  The notion that it is simply a 'victimless crime' or a 'harmless freedom' is a dangerous one.  Pornography is harmful to women and women's rights.  Women have the right to live free of the fear of being raped, and free of being regarded as mere sex objects. 

Pornography firmly entrenches in people's minds the notion that women are mere sex objects or hunks of meat.  If we are to have a future in which the sexes are truly equal and a future in which women are respected, pornography must go.

justbecause all rapists watch porn doesn't mean porn causes rape. i bet they all watched a violent movie, and probably use some of their methods from said violent films, should we ban them too?

guns dont kill people, people kill people.

porn doesn't rape people, sick freaks with violent tendancies people people.

out of the number of people as a whole that watch porn, how many DONT rape anyone? i'd like to see those numbers. you take a poll and ask if porn is the precise cause of their motives to rape and maybe i'll believe you.

degrade women? possibly. but it's entertainment, fantasy, FICTION. i've yet to join an orgy of cheerleaders after their bus breaks down in front of my house. how about you ask those who preform in porn if it degrades them. No one is forcing anyone to watch porn, it's available as entertainment, nothing more. not guide books for abuse, and certaily not tips and tricks for rape.

Yeah i bet it's a thirteen billion dollar a year industry, sex sells. plus you're talking about nickel and diming their way to the top, the millions of $9.95 girls gone wild VHS tapes, the website ring subscriptions, the impulse magazine purchases. Sure sports deals with a ton of money, but it's all at once, and not everyone can just start a franchise, but anyone with a camera, a website, and sexual organs can make a website and sell their amature videos.

Sorry, but it'll be many a blue moon before i point at media as the root of our social problems. try taking personal responsability for ones own actions, blame the rapists for the rape, not what they watched to warm up.