You’re at the library, finishing a research paper… You’re tired and ready to go home. The computer lab is packed and you are thankful that you could find a vacant computer. A few rows down you see a couple of guys huddled together, deep in concentration. Your eyes fall on their computer screen and to your horror you realize that they are watching porn! You look around to see if anyone else has noticed. No one is looking in their direction, everyone seems to be focused on their own screen. Do you approach the guys and tell them to turn the video off? Do you tell the librarian? Do you ignore it and leave? You decide to have the librarian talk to them. You gather your stuff and on your way out, you notice a man sitting to the side, looking at naked pictures of women. Horrified you wonder what the world has come to! These men have no shame or respect and are openly engaging in such disgusting acts….
Dr. Dolf Zimmerman and Dr. Jennings Bryant showed that continued exposure to pornography had serious adverse effects on beliefs about sexuality in general and on attitudes toward women in particular. They also found that pornography desensitizes people to rape as a criminal offense.2
These researchers also found that massive exposure to pornography encourages a desire for increasingly deviant materials which involve violence, like sadomasochism and rape.3
Feminist author Diana Russell notes in her book Rape and Marriage the correlation between deviant behavior (including abuse) and pornography. She also found that pornography leads men and women to experience conflict, suffering, and sexual dissatisfaction.4
Researcher Victor Cline (University of Utah) has documented in his research how men become addicted to pornographic materials, begin to desire more explicit or deviant material, and end up acting out what they have seen.5
According to Charles Keating of Citizens for Decency Through Law, research reveals that 77 percent of child molesters of boys and 87 percent of child molesters of girls admitted imitating the sexual behavior they had seen modeled in pornography.
Sociologists Murray Straus and Larry Baron (University of New Hampshire) found that rape rates are highest in states which have high sales of sex magazines and lax enforcement of pornography laws.6
Michigan state police detective Darrell Pope found that of the 38,000 sexual assault cases in Michigan (1956-1979), in 41 percent of the cases pornographic material was viewed just prior to or during the crime. This agrees with research done by psychotherapist David Scott who found that “half the rapists studied used pornography to arouse themselves immediately prior to seeking out a victim.”
The Final Report of the 1986 Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography lists a full chapter of testimony (197-223) from victims whose assailants had previously viewed pornographic materials. The adverse effects range from physical harm (rape, torture, murder, sexually transmitted disease) to psychological harm (suicidal thoughts, fear, shame, nightmares).
The Facts on Pornography
A day-care director, now serving three years for three counts of first-degree sexual assault, confessed the he had “started picking up pornographic materials occasionally, going to bookstores … no one knew, not even my wife … now I do recognize fully the shocking facts about pornography and how it will draw you into its clutches away from God into sinful fantasies …”
Multiplied incidents like the above graphically illustrate how the $8 billion-per-year porn industry has carved inroads into American life:
Nearly 900 theaters show X-rated films and more than 15,000 “adult” bookstores and video stores offer pornographic material, outnumbering McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S. by a margin of at least three to one.
Each year, nearly 100 full-length pornographic films provide estimated annual box office sales of $50 million.
Approximately 70% of the pornographic magazines sold eventually end up in the hands of minors.
About 1.2 million children are annually exploited through child pornography and prostitution.7
5 comments:
hahaha... i read your title an burst into laughter. thats so funny!
i would be so disgusted at those boys for doing that, especially in a public place
subhanAllah, this is just soo sad....Ah May Allah protect us from our evil desires.
good post, only thing is those sites are banned in libraries..........
Libraries do have bans on them so that you cant access porn, however children and teens, as well as adults are clever enough to get past it. At internet cafes and at universities there are not always bans and you can use it easily or even at work. The problem is that people are now watching porn publicly with no shame or respect toward themselves or others
I agree with Almallena
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