Pornography and Violence
There are a lot of Facebook posts and blogs going around that demonize pornography. Critics respond to these posts by blaming ultra conservative, right-wing religions for imposing their brand of morality on the rest of the world. "Stay out of our bedrooms," they demand. To which I reply, gladly. Here is where I have a problem with the porn industry. Most people's conceptualization of mainstream pornography is silicone injected women posing nude or being filmed performing sex acts (which, despite being extremely objectifying, is seen as relatively tame or harmless by most people). The truth is, 88% of the most viewed pornography depicts violent acts ( Bridges, A. J., Wosnitzer, R., Scharrer, E., Sun, C., & Liberman, R. (2010) . We are not talking about steamy skin flicks that little Johnny might stumble across randomly. Online pornography provides instant and free access to any deviant or violent sexual act you could dream of. Young people these days are growing up