Resolved: The United States ought ban all forms of pornography.

Sources: With the known anticipation that my links would not work, I provided my opponent with a full citation of my evidence with titles, names, and dates in order for him to be able to find the information that I looked at. If my opponent has any questions about my sources, I will be completely happy to answer them. Principle of consent: What my opponent is essentially saying is that principle of consent requires that the offering is not so alluring that it clouds reasonable judgement and that there are not only a provision of negative alternatives to making such a decision. First of all, while my opponent states that pornography violates both of these principles, he only really iterates about how it affects the first one with the alluring decision being so great that clouds reasonable judgement. Second, I directly question the kind of principle he's trying to promote when he's saying that just because the opportunity seems so alluring that this clouds the judgment of the person giving consent, this means that it is wrong. This is incredibly arbitrary. My opponent's principle eliminates any regard toward personal responsibility. It's one thing where a conscious decision cannot be made and another when one simply just doesn't use reasoning because the options are so alluring. In looking at my opponent's point on the treatment of pornography performers, I ask if this is ALL industry doing this or some?Negative perceptions about women: The reason why the judges will look at my evidence over my opponent's in the regard of perceptions of women is because my study was more comparative. In my study, it analyzed groups of people that had beforehand had positive outlooks on women's liberation movements and whatnot, and after the study, the perceptions of the people in the study over women were exactly the same as before. The same goes for his evidence about rape. When it comes to the methodology of our experiments, mine seem more credible because mine is more comparative. Profitability: It all depends on what kind of perception of morality we're looking at, and when we analyze this from a consequentialist point of view, one of the perceptions of morality with which I'm evaluating this case, profitibality does indeed add to the moral justification of pornography at some level. Furthermore, this brings up the point that my opponent has no scope nor framework at which to evaluate morality, so it is implied that this debate is following my framework. Sex Crime Rates: Let us make note that I'm not in any way supporting child pornography. However, the fact that its pornography and it has had an effect on the society in some way according to my evidence, then it's still a valid scope at which to evaluate pornography. When you look at my opponent's case, we realize that he puts up a lot of statistics and correlations, but none of the causations. He implies that the increases to rape were as a result of the liberalization of pornography, but if I find even one scenario where pornography hasn't necessarily caused an increase in sex crime rates, it implies that there are other lurking variables in the scenario. Just to expand on the scope of pornography in this case, I provide the following data:" The bottom line on these experiments is, "More Net access, less rape." A 10 percent increase in Net access yields about a 7.3 percent decrease in reported rapes. States that adopted the Internet quickly saw the biggest declines. And, according to Clemson professor Todd Kendall, the effects remain even after you control for all of the obvious confounding variables, such as alcohol consumption, police presence, poverty and unemployment rates, population density, and so forth...University of California professors Gordon Dahl and Stefano DellaVigna compared what happens on those weekends. The bottom line: More violence on the screen means less violence in the streets. Probably that's because violent criminals prefer violent movies, and as long as they're at the movies, they're not out causing mischief. They'd rather see Hannibal than rob you, but they'd rather rob you than sit through Wallace & Gromit. I say that's the most probable explanation, because the biggest drop in crime (about a 2 percent drop for every million people watching violent movies) occurs between 6 p.m. and midnight—the prime moviegoing hours. And what happens when the theaters close? Answer: Crime stays down, though not by quite as much. Dahl and DellaVigna speculate that this is because two hours at the movies means two hours of drinking Coke instead of beer, with sobering effects that persist right on through till morning. Speaking of morning, after 6 a.m., crime returns to its original level.""While that is far from a ringing endorsement, it does at least seem to indicate that pornography isn't contributing to sex crimes. While some naysayers may point out that most offenders in prison have been exposed to porn, the fact of the matter is that nearly every male -- and a good number of females -- is exposed to pornography at some point. It stands to reason that most offenders have viewed porn. But other studies found that being punished for porn use might contribute to someone becoming a rapist, and not the porn use itself. Indeed, continues The Scientist, a repressive religious upbringing might be more of a factor in rape than porn: Looking closer, Michael Goldstein and Harold Kant found that rapists were more likely than nonrapists in the prison population to have been punished for looking at pornography while a youngster, while other research has shown that incarcerated nonrapists had seen more pornography, and seen it at an earlier age, than rapists. What does correlate highly with sex offense is a strict, repressive religious upbringing. Richard Green too has reported that both rapists and child molesters use less pornography than a control group of “normal” males." Marquit, Miranda. "Could Porn Be Good For Society?" Could Porn Be Good For Society? 10 Mar. 2010. Web. 05 May 2012. <http://phys.org...;. Landsburg, Steven E. "All That Internet Porn Reduces Sex Crimes. Really." Slate Magazine. 30 Oct. 2006. Web. 05 May 2012. <http://www.slate.com...;.