Pornography

Pornography is a billion dollar industry; it is defined as any material depicting or describing the human body or sexual conduct in a way that arouses sexual feelings.

Many talk about the destructive nature of pornography, even in terms of morality. A stereotype way of looking at pornography is that it is a harmful tool which affects one negatively and is strongly advised not to participate in any forms. If you are using pornography, you are not morally clean, even if you haven't done anything else immoral. Objectification of women is prevalent in pornography where they are treated as sex objects instead of a sexual partner and people often look at it as a form of degradation of women. These media erotic fantasies become deeply embedded, commonly coarsening, confusing, motivating and addicting many of those exposed. The addiction is comparable to those of drugs like heroin. Pornography triggers myriad of endogenous, internal, natural drugs that mimic the 'high' from a street drug. As pornography became mainstreamed and pushed the envelope of moral sexual conduct, law enforcement reported that sex crimes mimicking comparable acts were being inflicted on women and children.

Pornography serves as a method to release sexual urges by giving the sexually frustrated a harmless outlet to relieve sexual tension. It could be said by some that pornography might serve to only worsen perversions and pollute people’s minds.

Looking at pornography in another way, it may not be totally harmful but in fact, rather healthy and worthy of appreciation. Pornography may be a beautiful art form. It is very human and portrays one of man's greatest strengths and driving force for live. Pornography also has a role as a form of expression. Pornography expresses human sexuality and represents a side of the human mind that that society otherwise ignores and declares obscene in normal settings. That, of course, is sexual desire. But its expression via pornography, some argue, is undesirable due to its absence of portraying healthy sexual relationships. This is because it displays sex for the sole purpose of pleasure rather than sex for emotional connection with another being. Societal norms and morals also serve as obstacles to the expression of pornography. Anti-pornography proponents have been calling for censorship for decades, which has brought forth the question: to what extent is pornography protected by the freedom of expression? Besides, because of unequal distribution of sexual experiences among different people, it could also be used as a substitute for those who could not experience sex for some reason. Furthermore, through reflecting and encouraging sexual fantasies, it exposes human to the most intimate form of expression and asserts the pleasure of human sexuality which makes human more humane, and enjoy to the fullest.

Considering that it is treated and recognised as an entertainment industry, pornography has no doubt groomed many notable porn stars, serving as an opportunistic and rewarding career for mainly women. On the issue of exploitation of women, pornography instead could arguably help some women to their road for success in life.

Regarding censorship, on the thought of the various crimes rose from pornography like rape or abuse cases, negative impacts that it could cause, it is radical. Anyway, censorship would be difficult given pornography's wide range of mediums such as magazines, movies, art, and internet. Some might argue that pornography may indeed have positive benefits as an instrument of crime control. Studies have shown that cases of voyeurism and rape, molest cases have dropped after pornography became readily available. However, we cannot risk the fact that some react negatively after interacting with pornography and even mimic actions from them on innocent women or children. Hence, instead of censoring pornography totally, we could mainly censor those hardcore ones and set age limits like the current systems in the world. Historically, it has evolved from softcore to hardcore, and it will evolve further. We should stop such unhealthy evolution before it influences all age groups. Earth is made up of humans, if the humans are corrupted, Earth would follow suit.