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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"Child porn is already illegal, so it's not a bug jump to make all porn illegal"

you can just as easily say 'pot is already illegal, so it's not a big jump to make all drugs illegal' (cigarettes, alcohol). oh wait, didn't they try that? i wonder what happened...

"I think porn should be illegal because it dehumanizes women."

yeah, within the confines of the porn. so what? porn is about sex, and most men want just the sex, not the emotional backstory between the two characters. this is simply a taste to which porn caters to. It's not like the men are ugly fuckers dominating the woman. they're both attractive, and they have sex equally. porn can be as much for the girl as it is the guy, or else we'd have ugly small penised guys screwing unproportionally hot women. There are pleanty of women who enjoy porn, and do not feel degraded by it. and those that do, well they dont watch it, and usually if requested of the man that he not watch it either he wont (in a married relationship). Again, your argument that porn degrades and dehumanizes women is misguided, because you're looking at an act of fantasy, not reality. If porn was an accurate depiction of what a male really acts toward a woman, you might be right, but it's not, it's taking the most basic needs for arousal and pushing them forth. if this means that sex happens without the song and dance of dating (or any rational reason besdies there's a guy and a girl in the room), so be it. These arent rape videos, these arent films where the girl is forced upon against her will to screw the man. these are films in which 99.9% of the time the two partners are in agreement that some fucking is about to happen, and both walk away happy for it (90% of the time they make sure to depict the woman having orgasm, because believe it or not, men are aroused by seeing women take pleasure, whether from them or from themselves).

"People are influenced by what they see. After a person is exposed to a lot of porn, he would tend to see women as sex objects without any feelings and yea if he is crazy or sth he will rape her."

People are influenced by ideas, but if they have any sort of moral compass, ideas that harm others wont go into practice. I play tons of violent video games, and i admit i watch WAAAAAAY too much porn, and 70% of that porn is hentai involving rape. But i know better to take any of that FANTASY, and inact it along with REALITY. If i had a girlfriend, she would be my world. she would be treated with the utmost respect and care and she would be in equal standing in pretty much everything we did, including sex. And guess what? the majority of the people who enjoy porn and video games are THE EXACT SAME WAY. You CANNOT punish the many for the stupid and ignorant choices of the few. Porn as a whole is not bad, but it CAN influence people negativly. but those people are of weak will and weak mental disposition (right word?). This is a matter of personal responsability, and proper mental health. A deeper explination of why some men are more influenced by porn in the negative than most other men is possibly because those men weren't taught in their early ages to repect women. if a man has no solid moral ground on which to base things when he is a child, the chances that already shakey moral ground and viewpoint towards tomen will skew to the negative. this is absolutly no fault of the porn itself, it's more the fault of that persons up bringing.