Essay on Pornography In The Media

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Post War New Zealand
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Prejudice
Immigrants entering our country have always experienced discrimination due to many different prejudices. ^How they would not rent to Negroes or Puerto Ricans. How Negroes and Puerto Ricans were given the pink slips first at work^ (Colon 243). Prejudice impacted various aspects of the lives o

It started by way of messengers and scribes, evolved through the

presentation of newspapers and radio, brought us together with

television, and now serves us world- wide via the ever-popular

Internet. It is the mass media, and even from the earliest days of its

existence, it has contributed greatly in ways that both enlighten and

enrich society, and ways that deteriorate and perplex it. It is not a

surprise to learn, then, that the mass media is the most powerful

source of information we have, and nothing else in today's world

influences public perception quite as heavily.

Unfortunately, however, most of what is broadcast or transmitted in the

news today is with reference to the chaotic condition of our planet, or

something else that society as a whole sees as detrimental or

damaging. But the news on television is not the only type of media

taking the criticism of society. Other forms of mass media,

specifically movies and television programs containing pornography and

violence have been heavily criticized. The underlining concept to be

debated here is that society is negatively influenced, specifically, by

these images of pornography and the result is increased violence

against women. This assumption, and it is indeed only an assumption, is

completely fallacious, however, as no concrete and completely

conclusive

evidence has ever been formulated in support of the theory. The key

premise here is

that the mass media does not cause undesirable social behaviour and in

actuality, the

media people should not be dubbed as the "bad guys". They simply use

their power in

the most constructive ways possible in order to promote their ratings

and popularity.

One way to do that is to concentrate on what sells: sex, violence and

disaster.

Having said this, why is it then, that many in society still

believe otherwise; why do

they continue to believe that pornography is "evil" and is a major

cause for violence

against women, specifically rape? There are many reasons for this

misinterpretation and

through the following few points, an attempt will be made to show that

pornography

has very little to almost no correlation with violence against women

(of course nothing is

"absolute" in society). In order to demonstrate this, it must be made

evident that

pornography is not "evil" and does not cause undesirable social

behaviour by displaying

nude women in sexually explicit circumstances. Thus, it is important

to indicate that

women are not treated only as sexual objects through the media. This

is done in an

attempt to quash any traces of "evil" in pornography. Subsequently, a

second point, that

some may consider to be completely bizarre, can be addressed; that

pornography

actually reduces the amount of violence against women.

For thousands of years, sex itself has been considered "evil"

and revolting. This is

exactly why the concealment of the sex organs and teaching feelings of

shame toward

human sexuality is so common worldwide. These same feelings of shame

are the chief

reasons that sex is considered a personal and private matter. Contrary

to the beliefs of

many, the mass media did not create these settings; society creates

this image. In some

societies, women have no reservations with regard to living their

entire live completely

naked, while in other societies, females cover themselves from head to

toe, only

revealing their eyes. The media has been bombarded with criticism,

overwhelmingly

from the female community, relative to the amount of sexually explicit

material that is

published in magazines and that appears on television and in the

cinemas. A common

argument against pornography is that the media portrays women as being

nothing more

than sexual playthings and...