Pornography and The Decline of Sexual Morality

Sexual morality has declined in America today. The immoral life can be seen all

around us. We see it in drugs, alcohol, movies, magazines, gangs, teenage pregnancy,

pre-marital sex, and society as a whole. A person can walk into almost any convenience

store and purchase a magazine depicting naked women. Videos and movies with graphic

sex scenes can be rented or watched in any movie theater. They have become more

common than ever before. Almost every movie with an "R" rating will have at least one

sex scene. Even Forrest Gump, a highly acclaimed movie, had a sexual act and nudity

involved. Also public television has been known to show nudity and sex. Allusions are

made to sex in every part of our life. Work, school, sports, and recreation are all forums

through which unhealthy sexual views are expressed.

One of the more predominant and obvious forums for the proliferation of

unhealthy sexual desires is pornography. Pornography is displaying the human body in a

perverse, sexual way. It can be found in film, magazine, television, on CD-ROM, and

even the internet, and can range from "soft-core", depicting natural poses and action, to

"hard-core", or depicting sex combined with violence, that any reasonable, decent, well-

adjusted human being would recognize as horrible and disgusting. Much pornography is

socially acceptable, with few people actively speaking out against it.

Pornography can be bought at many "adult" or "adult novelty" shops. One only

has to listen to any popular local radio station after 8 P.M. to hear strings of

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... The movie industry has glorified pornography in many movies. Movies are the

main source of pornography, along with magazines. Any person can see pornography

when watching one of the pay channels on the television late at night. This provides the

oppurtunity for anyone with access to these channels to see pornography. Many children

have access to this. Also anyone with a computer and access to the internet has the

oppurtunity to pick up some pornography. Some restrictions should be made on these

things but people say that it violates their First Amendment right.

Pornography is something that shouldn't be around. Women shouldn't be

portrayed as sexual objects, but as an individual. Pornography is a very bad thing

that severes your relationship with God and is a big sin.