The Negative Impact of Pornography on Society

Pornography is tearing apart the very fabric of our society. Yet Christians are often ignorant of its impact and apathetic about the need to control this menace.

Pornography is an $8 billion a year business with close ties to organized crime.The wages of sin are enormous when pornography is involved. Purveyors of pornography reap enormous profits through sales in so-called "adult bookstores" and viewing of films and live acts at theaters.

Pornography involves books, magazines, videos, and devices and has moved from the periphery of society into the mainstream through the renting of video cassettes, sales of so-called "soft-porn" magazines, and the airing of sexually explicit movies on cable television. To some, pornography is nothing more than a few pictures of scantily-clad women in seductive poses. But pornography has become much more than just photographs of nude women.

Nearly 900 theaters show pornographic films and more than 15,000 "adult" bookstores and video stores offer pornographic material. Adult bookstores outnumber McDonald's restaurants in the United States by a margin of at least three to one. In 1985, nearly 100 full-length pornographic films were distributed to "adult" theaters providing estimated annual box office sales of $50 million.

Pornography in the media is understood as a violation, through the use of audio-visual techniques, of the right to privacy of the human body in its male or female nature, a violation which reduces the human person and human body to an anonymous object of misuse for the purpose of gratifying control. Specialists may disagree among themselves about how and to what degree particular individuals and groups are affected by these phenomena, but the broad outlines...

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..., pornography that displays sexual violence or child abuse should be banned. Some argue that banning pornography is an infringement on the right to freedom of speech. But violent pornography denies women their freedom of speech, movement and safety. This papers just shows you some examples of how violent pornography has the potential to plague society. The true goal is to promote positive images of all people. In conclusion, excessive violence in any form is not a helpful tool to a society that is trying to prosper.

Also, in doing my research i've come to notice that feminists and religious groups are the only ones actually trying to do something about this situation. I also personally believe that Web filtering software should be issued for free throughout the world in order to help families protect their children from this terrible plague before it's too late.