Pornography appears to be a social problem for many people in America, but the specific nature of that 'problem' is a contested matter in which interested parties struggle to define or even prevent its definition as a public problem. Some religious groups preach that pornography propagates perverse sexualities and its proliferation portends the poverty of morality.
Some women promulgate the view that pornography preserves and promotes patriarchal power.
Some other women claim that pornography in popular music leads to all kinds of teenage pathology. On the other hand, producers of pornography argue that their products have the postive potential of catharsis, channleing off sexual desires into maturbatory fantasies. And many people who purchase pornography consume it in the privacy of their homes and cannot comprehend why a private matter should become a public problem n4. The word 'social problem'suggests a negative condition, that something is amiss or warps the social fabric. In order that a situation or state of affairs be perceived as a problem, value judgments are passed to make the situation appear distressing, evil or inmoral.