The dangers of pornography

Rating: 5/10 (22 October 2013)

I recently saw Don Jon and had mixed feelings on the movie. While I am somewhat impressed that in our society someone decided to create a film that subtly showed how porn can ruin a man's ability to bond with a woman because it creates unrealistic expectations of women, I think it left out many important aspects of the dangers of porn, including how porn leads to violence against women. The porn is the movie was portrayed as fulfilling to Jon because he got to see people have sex in crazy positions that he didn't get to enjoy in real life. But porn is not just watching people have sex. It typically shows violent sex and portrays a man always in control. It often shows women saying ''no,'' a man forcing himself on her, and the girl then thanking him because she enjoyed herself, which is clearly sending a dangerous message and shows that porn could be a factor is the increasing number of rapes in our society. Other porn shows multiple men violating one girl at the same time. These ideas of violence and domination are influences the men in our society. Porn promotes violence by portraying it as sexy, and while some men think they are immune to the media, they all will be subconsciously influenced and for some, this learned violence can be carried over into their real life sexual interactions. This should have been addressed in the movie, in my opinion. I also think the movie made light of the effects of porn. In the end, it seemed that Jon's porn addiction was cured when he found the right woman for him. But she was not as sexually promiscuous as the women in the porn he was watching, so I do not see how his addiction could have realistically been cured. He still has an image of women that his girlfriend will never live up to. Porn hates men and women. It aims to distort man's image of women so he is incapable of forming a relationship with any woman, which includes the redheaded woman in the end of the movie.