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Pornography

Pornography


Sexual morality has declined in America today. The immoral life can be
seen all around us. We see it in drugs, alcohol, movies, magazines, gangs,
teenage pregnancy, pre-marital sex, and society as a whole. A person can walk
into almost any convenience store and purchase a magazine depicting naked women.
Videos and movies with graphic sex scenes can be rented or watched in any
movie theater. They have become more common than ever before. Almost every
movie with an "R" rating will have at least one sex scene. Even Forrest Gump, a
highly acclaimed movie, had a sexual act and nudity involved. Also public
television has been known to show nudity and sex. Allusions are made to sex
in every part of our life. Work, school, sports, and recreation are all forums
through which unhealthy sexual views are expressed.

One of the more predominant and obvious forums for the proliferation of
unhealthy sexual desires is pornography. Pornography is displaying the human
body in a perverse, sexual way. It can be found in film, magazine, television,
on CD-ROM, and even the internet, and can range from "soft-core", depicting
natural poses and action, to "hard-core", or depicting sex combined with
violence, that any reasonable, decent, well-adjusted human being would
recognize as horrible and disgusting. Much pornography is socially acceptable,
with few people actively speaking out against it.

Pornography can be bought at many "adult" or "adult novelty" shops. One
only has to listen to any popular local radio station after 8 P.M. to hear
strings of advertisements for local pornographic outlets. Television
advertisements are shown also, but not as often as on the radio. Pornography is
so socially acceptable in today's society, that it is protected by the same
amendment to the constitution that allows Pro-Life groups to protest abortion,
the first amendment to the constitution. For years, the first amendment has
been quoted to support pornography,...