Pornography -- Sex or Subordination?
             In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged
             by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young,
             beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted
             Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his
             detention in various penitentiaries, he was mentally
             probed and prodded by psychologist and psychoanalysts
             hoping to discover the root of his violent actions and
             sexual frustrations. Many theories arose in attempts to
             explain the motivational factors behind his murderous
             escapades. However, the strongest and most feasible of
             these theories came not from the psychologists, but from
             the man himself, “as a teenager, my buddies and I would
             all sneak around and watch porn. As I grew older, I
             became more and more interested and involved in it,
             [pornography] became an obsession. I got so involved in
             it, I wanted to incorporate [porn] into my life, but I
             couldn’t behave like that and maintain the success I had
             worked so hard for. I generated an alter-ego to fulfill
             my fantasies under-cover. Pornography was a means of
             unlocking the evil I had burried inside myself” (Leidholdt
             47). Is it possible that pornography is acting as the key
             to unlocking the evil in more unstable minds?
             According to Edward Donnerstein, a leading researcher
             in the pornography field, “the relationship between
             sexually violent images in the media and subsequent
             aggression and . . . callous attitudes towards women is
             much stonger statistically than the relationship between
             smoking and cancer” (Itzin 22). After considering the
             increase in rape and molestation, sexual harassment, and
             other sex crimes over the last few decades, and also the
             corresponding increase of business in the pornography
             industry, the link between violence and pornogrpahy needs
             considerable study and ex...