Those who advocate for wide distribution of pornography often rely on the argument that pornography is an activity between one individual and a magazine, video or web page. Nothing could be further from the truth. God created each of us to experience relationships, but pornography short-circuits this process. Void of intimacy, pornography separates the perpetrator from true relationships, leaving them to pursue connections through destructive means. In one sense, even pornography users themselves are victimized by it.
Studies prove a correlation between pornography and sex-related crimes.
For example, one study shows a proportional relationship between individual states' pornography consumption and rape rates. Those who advocate for the pornography industry do so under an alleged cloak of the First Amendment.