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Violence + Sex =?

April 22, 2006 at 4:25 am (Uncategorized)

The topic of sexual violence intrigued me because it seems we as people analyze every type of possible stimulus that may cause an elevation in violent tendencies and behaviors.  This is in no way a bad thing, research is good as long as it produces impressive or conclusive results to better the situation.  The problem with pornography is that it seems to have been not so much evolving over the decades, but re-inventing itself to incorporate different types of pornography.  Pornography has already taken shots from every single group, ranging from feminists to religious activists for years and years and the last thing it needed was to take on this issue that pornography can lead to violent tendencies towards women.

The issue of violence towards women is a load of rubbish in my personal opinion, but in the way of violent pornography there are possibilities and the potential for that one person to get motivated to commit an act of violence.  We learned of the studies done through lectures and seen that no conclusive evidence was given to show that violent pornography was the cause for some of the rapes and sexual assaults against women, although it was shown that some men do show signs of increased aggression after viewing violent pornography during sessions of certain controlled experiments.

Violence in the media has been an ongoing dispute for many years, especially in the way of school shootings.  I believe that this issue of violence in sex is different but carries some of the same principles.  Any violence portrayed through any medium has the potential to arose aggression in some people, pornography is no different and should not have to carry a greater burden than other media types…if it is too violent in accordance to moral, ethical, state or federal laws than it should be banned, it's that simple, yet controlling violence on the Internet is a whole different story.