Today there are many controversial ideas on pornography. Mens
views of women are warped by the dominating and explicit scenes of
pornography. The community can find adult entertainment stores on almost
every corner and everywhere on the Internet. Women feel pornography
degrades them in the eyes of men and may have an affect on their position in
society. Pornography victimizes women by changing men's views towards
them, by selling and advertising magazines with nude women on the cover in
every corner store in America, and showing women to be sexual toys that are
Many men's views towards women are affected as they see more and
more pornography. Men get accustomed to seeing women used as toys
instead of people in the community. University of Virginia law and
psychiatry Professor Park Elliot Dietz states, "A person who learned about
human sexuality in the 'adults only' outlets of America would be a person
who had never conceived of a man and a women marrying or even falling in
love before having intercourse, who had never conceived of tender foreplay,
and who had never conceived of procreation as a purpose of sexual union.
Instead such a person would be one who had learned that sex at most meant
sex with one's children, stepchildren, parents, siblings, pets, and with
neighbors, plumbers, salesmen, burglars, and peepers."(Somerville, 3)
Dr. Michael Stevenson found that much of the sexually violent material
people see carries the message that even if a women seems to be disinterested
or repulsed, her need to be dominated will ultimately result in her becoming
turned on once overpowered by her male assailant.(Murray, 5) Edwin Meese
asserts that pornography no only harms the individual taking part in it, but it
also has an effect on the entire community. A frequently cited 1988 FBI
study found that eighty-one percent of violent sexual offenders reg...