Sex Offenders: Where's the Problem?
             "Don't take candy from strangers." It's such a cliche term, overused and barely heeded anymore. However, this statement is crucial advice from parents to young children to keep them safe. The concern of parents for their young children was that the candy-wielding stranger would abduct them and most likely subject them to sexual abuse, rape, and torture. Paradoxically, the same parents who restrict their children from playing in the streets were the same children who gallivanted the neighborhood in their youth. Sex crimes, however, are not a recent development-people have been violating others sexually since the dawn of man, no question about it. What we do not understand is the drive that motivates sex offenders to commit these acts. The time of blaming sex crimes on the devil and pure evil is over. We are now led to ask ourselves and our society "why do sex-crimes happen?"
             Where does America immediately turn to when establishing the cause of society's shortcomings? Hollywood. Although not specific to sex-crimes alone, Hollywood is constantly under scrutiny by the public as to how greatly it influences criminal activity in the United States. Anyone would agree that movies and television shows have become more violent, more offensive, and more sexually explicit since its beginnings. Unfortunately, America will have to look elsewhere to find a true culprit in Hollywood.
            
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             Only four to six percent of all crime can be "linked to the entertainment media's influence." (Clark 3). The numbers are too inconsequential to blame Hollywood alone.
             The pornographic film industry has become almost mainstream in American society. Opponents of pornography voice their concern because they believe that pornography desensitizes a person to the act of sex by treating the participants as objects rather than two consenting, loving adults. The fo...