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.

>>166 "Eh, no.  You're making the stupid-ass assertion that porn CAUSES these feelings of machismo to come out without any evidence to back it up." And now I have to find support for that assertation. You are demanding.
"For example, men don't feel the need to be macho because they see such as the ideal in porn.  For a man, all porn is is a fantasy, something that doesn't touch their every day lives." Aha, it all makes sense now! Source?
" They don't feel the need to be what society tells them to be as much as women do." Great! Source?
"Now, given this, where does a man usually get his feelings of inferiority, and the connected desires to be macho?   Usually from trauma experienced in the past, or from some sort of imprint in his upbringing.  Maybe an overbearing mother, maybe someone pushed him down on the playground.  Maybe he went through years of sexual frustration during puberty and never understood his feelings, therefore expresses them in socially defunct ways.   Whatever the cause, porn isn't to blame.  If anything it's a counter-active force." Find adequate causation or at least correlation. Look through the thread, you'll find some data.