Pornography Is Harmful to Women

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Pornography Is Harmful To Women and Children Let it be known that the purpose of this paper is to argue that pornography is harmful to society, but more specifically women and children. Unlike any other media representation of sex and sexuality, pornography within our postmodern society has become a cultural category of significance. The typical seediness has somewhat become lost but replaced by a society that mainly focuses sexual imagery in almost everything everyone sees. High contents of sexual imagery is used in the advertising and music industries as well as a number of late night television shows. This sudden shift in people’s attitudes towards the use of certain sexual and erotic images in today’s society raises a number of questions that need to be answered in order to better understand the harms it does to society. What is pornography and how is it defined? If pornography is harmful, who it does harm to and in what way? If we wanted really understand and fully explore the question is pornography harmful to women and children then it is, first, important to define what pornography is and look closely to the opposing arguments around defending it’s benefits. Pornography, in today’s society, is known as a film, printed article or picture of some type of sexual action. Despite all differences of opinion on the words definition, most people would agree that pornography involves sex. First, let us look at opposing views of pornography being harmful. Many people will argue that over seas in other countries the showing of female and male body parts is considered, aesthetically, beautiful. By revealing the human body is normal and very accepted in countries such as Greece and Rome. In earlier times Greeks and Romans would have parades just to flaunt all they had to offer. A variety of people participated in these types of events because they were classified

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