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.

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"Pornography, firearms, and prostitution should all be illegal. "

well you have one out of three, but you'll never get the other two.

porn is simply entertainment, nothing more. it's not real, it does not depict how men treat women, or how they SHOULD treat women, it's entertainment aimed at a certain demand (in this case, the degridation of the woman) and it's strictly up to the viewer to understand this differnece. There is such a thing as personal responsibility. Just because you dont know how to use something properly, doesn't mean the use of that same something should be restricted to all.

same with firearms, another thing guarenteed to us in the constitution. It's not just so we can carry around big guns like they were our penises. the constitution ensures that if the government is to ever turn tyranical, we have the means to defend yourselves. one of the very first things dictators and tyrants do when they usurp power is they takea away the peoples guns and leave them defenceless.

again, as well intentioned as your motives are, there are bigger things going on behind the tools and meida that may or may not be used to harm others. When you factor this in, it's all really up to the individual and that individuals proper use of said tools and media. if a person misuses a gun, if a sick-o sees porn as a guide to his violent ways, if an eundereducated or heavily depressed teenager sees a violent game as a how-to to killing cops and fellow students, then that's the fault of the individual, not the tool or media.

you can't simply go around banning everything you disagree with. The fact of the matter is that majority of the people who use and enjoy these 'dangerous' things are responsible people who know better. You dont punish the many for the actions of the few.