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.

>>56  Women should be free from being viewed only as sex objects.  A ban on pornography would be helpful in this department as well.  If society cannot handle its freedom it must be taken away for the sake of protecting women.  Certain freedoms must be compromised, removed, or reformed to allow for a more pro-women society.  If women are not respected, it is the responsibility of the government to target what makes men view women as sex objects and nothing more, and eliminate that source.  This source is, at least in part, pornography. 

Due to recent advances in the ability of authorities to search for inappropriate or offensive behavior, we now have the ability to take action against pornography and other material offensive to women.  Such action must be taken if, in the future, women are to be regarded with the proper degree of respect, are not dehumanized, and are not treated as mere chunks of meat to be viewed for the sexual gratification of men.

Our culture is very anti-women.  When a society cannot handle its freedom, unfortunately it must be stripped away.  For the sake of promoting women, this is unfortunately what must be done.  If it helps just one woman, it will have been worth it.