Porn is not bad

On a side note, I don't know how I'm going to explain my browser history now. Contention 1: Relationship Effect Pornography is not an art. It is a means to gratuitously satisfy carnal urges while at the same time create a false world view that pleasure ought to something on demand. It allows men and women alike to fore go the necessary steps in cultivating a relationship with another person, and even destroys existing relationships by setting up a false world view about what sex, love an romance is meant to be. Dines writes (quoting the sage research institute", that "The most extensive peer-reviewed study in the past decade found that a majority of scenes from 50 top-rented porn movies contained physical and verbal abuse of female performers. Physical aggression " including spanking, open-hand slapping and gagging " occurred in 88 percent of scenes, with expressions of verbal aggression " usually a man calling a woman derogatory names " in 48 percent. [1][2]" [1] . http://nyti.ms... [2] . http://bit.ly... I could really go on forever about this flawed view of pornography as art and it's devastating impact on relationships, but there are other things which need to e duscussed. Contention 2: Porn-hunger fuels sex trafficking- Like any addiction you're going to be satisfied with the mild stuff for very long, and as the hunger for more depraved pornography increases, the willingness of actors and actresses to commit these acts dwindles. This in turn fuels not only the sex trade for pornography, but for sex trafficking (forced prostitution) a well. Trueman, former head of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the U. S. Justice Department, writes "It was 2 a. m. We were in the meat market section of New York, which, of course, was closed then. But in a two-block area there was a traffic jam of primarily college kids " and others as well, adults, but a lot of them were college kids " driving into this two-block area to have time with child prostitutes and some young adult prostitutes. " and "On each side of you as you would drive down the street there was car after car with young men having sex with these young prostitutes, many of whom are children. There was a van parked there with one young man having sex, with all his college buddies standing outside the van, cheering him on. Now, these aren"t kids who just happened to be in the meat market section of Manhattan at 2 a. m. These are kids who spend their time on Internet pornography, buying magazines with pornography, looking at cable television pornography. [3]" [3] . http://bit.ly... The fact is, pornography skews our ideas of what a healthy view of sex, and intimacy is supposed to be and fuels deviant sex acts and the desire for sex trafficking. Gould, a reporter at the atlantic writes, "The leading demographic accounts of contemporary slavery project a global slave population of between 20 million and 30 million people. The highest ratios of slaves worldwide are from South and Southeast Asia, along with China, Russia, and the former satellite states of the Soviet Union. There is a significant slave presence across North Africa and the Middle East, including Lebanon. There is also a major slave trade in Africa. Descent-based slavery persists in Mauritania, where children of slaves are passed on to their slave-holders' children. And the North Korean gulag system, which holds 200,000 people, is essentially a constellation of slave-labor camps. Most of the world's slaves are in sedentary forms of servitude, such as hereditary collateral-debt bondage, but about 20 percent have been unwittingly trafficked by predators through deception and coercion. [4]" [4] . http://bit.ly...