amination. Once the evidence you
             will encounter in this paper is evaluated and quantified,
             it will be hard not come away with the realization that
             habitual use of pornographic material promotes unrealistic
             and unattainable desires in men that can leac to violent
             In order to properly discuss pornography, and be able
             to link it to violence, we must first come to a basic and
             agreeable understanding of what the word pornography
             means. The term pornogrpahy originates from two greek
             words, porne, which means harlot, and graphein, which
             means to write (Webster’s 286). My belief is that the
             combination of the two words was originally meant to
             describe, in literature, the sexual escapades of women
             deemed to be whores. As time has passed, this definition
             of pornography has grown to include any and all obscene
             literature and pictures. At the present date, the term is
             basically a blanket which covers all types of material
             such as explicit literature, photography, films, and video
             tapes with varying degrees of sexual content.
             For Catherine Itzin’s research purposes pornogrpahy
             has been divided into three categories: The sexually
             explicit and violent; the sexually explicit and
             nonviolent, but subordinating and dehumanizing; and the
             sexually explicit, nonviolent, and nonsubordinating that
             is based upon mutuality. The sexually explicit and
             violent is graphic, showing penetration and ejaculation.
             Also, it shows the violent act toward a woman. The
             second example shows the graphic sexual act and climax,
             but not a violent act. This example shows the woman
             being dressed is a costume or being ‘talked down’ to in
             order to reduce her to something not human; such as a
             body part or just something to have sex with, a body
             opening or an orifice. Not only does ‘erotica’ show the
             entire graphic sexual act,...