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Pornography

A wealth of social science research points to the conclusions that pornography desensitizes men, undermines the sexual appeal of their partners, and leads them to believe that women are less deserving of equality than men, (Itzin, 1995). Pornography also is linked with a host of other negative influences on viewers, from increasing the likelihood of committing violence to normalizing abuse and exploitation against women. With the advent of the Internet and World Wide Web and more liberal programming on network TV and Cable, pornography is more prevalent and accessible in society than ever before in history. This analysis will discuss the evidence in support of pornography being an independent variable that affects behavior.

Some critics of pornography maintain that link between pornography and violence and abuse against women is stronger than ôthe relationship between smoking and cancer,ö (Itzin, 1995, p. 22). Indeed, there are numerous research studies that posit pornography as an independent variable that negatively affects behavior in consumers of it. According to Itzin (1995, p. 22), clinical work and research with sex offenders demonstrates that pornography is implicated at every stage in:

legitimizing and normalizing abuse;

creating and reinforcing false belief systems about victims of abuse;

reducing internal and external inhibition to abuse; and

Socialization processes are often responsible for affecting behavior of individuals in social interaction. A wealth of evidence exists that continues to paint pornography as an independent variable that has a negative affect on behavior. Robert Keppel is a crime author and also a retired chief criminal investigator who worked on more than fifty serial killer murder investigations, including those of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy. Bundy and Dahmer maintai

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Pornography. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 10:44, March 29, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1709701.html