What is Pornography?
Pornography can be define as any obscene or
lascivious material (pictures, photographs, drawings, moving pictures etc)
designed to improperly arouse sexual feelings. such materials are strongly
repulsive to the sense of propriety and decency .They are usually offensive to
good taste or morals.
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It is obvious that pornography is morally repugnant.
Today’s society is a free society .There is freedom of expression and
association. This freedom has led to people doing just anything that fancy. Some
condemn pornography as harmful while other see it as the hall mark of an open
expressive and healthy society. Despite the fact that we live in a free and
open society, What should be our attitude to pornography? Why is pornography
widespread? Is pornography really harmless or harmful?
Before we continue, let us see what two renowned
writers said about pornography. Tony parsons is a well know columnist, he
wrote;"pornography creates appetites that should not exist, it stimulates
cravings that should never be satisfied’’. Another renowned writer, Brain Mc
Nair said;”A society mature enough to cope with the explicit depiction of sex
between consenting adults is likely to be one comfortable with sexual diversity
and women’s equality’’. Others have asserted that people should not be ashamed
of their sexual desire or orientations while some claim that pornography could
be used to start and stimulate open discussions about sex. There is no aid to
this debate while many see pornography as free expression and view detractors
as prudish. Others see it as unhealthy way of toying with sex.
The Harmful Effects of Pornography:
Pornography has unwittingly joined the ranks of
addictive substances. Now some doctors believe that pornography can spark off
an addiction that is far more difficult to overcome than drug addiction. They
justify their claims by saying that treatment for drug addicts usually starts
with detoxification, that is removal of toxic substances from the body. But
according to Dr. Mary Anne Layden of the University of Pennsylvania, pornography”
pr0duce mental imagery which is permanently implement in the mind of the users
and is scaled in by brain chemistry”. That is why individuals can clearly
remember pornographic images from past years.
Pornography is easily assessable through the
television, music, video, movies, books and the internet. Even though
‘defenders’ of pornography claim that it can strengthen affection between two
people, it actually has profoundly negative effects on people. It can also
interfere with ability to enjoy and participate in normal marital
intimacy.p0rnography is a fantasy and what is fantasized cannot be re-enacted
in real life .Pornography makes what is unnatural seen natural. it can
therefore lead to a break up of genuine relationship.
Teachers have often caught students viewing
pornographic materials in class as lessons are going on such students get so
carried away looking at the pictures that they are completely oblivious of what
the teacher is saying. At the end of lesson ,they learn nothing from the lesson
and when they go home after school, they continue to fantasize on the pictures
they were viewing. Available statistics show that of school age children, the
primary consumption of pornography is by boys between the ages of 12 and 17.
For many in this age bracket, pornography
is their primary source of sex education. This is unfortunate. Researchers
have also pointed out that pornography can affect the natural development of a
child’s brain. Let us take not of what
Dr.Judith Reisman, president of the institute of Media Education says;
“Health based neutrological observations about the instinctual brain-imprinted
response to pornography sights and sounds indicates that viewing pornography is
a biologically significant event that overrides informed consent and that is
harmful to children’s ‘plastic’ brains because it compromises their grasp of
reality and thus their mental aid physical health, their well-being and their
pursuit of happiness’’. It is therefore clear that pornography is harmful to
people ,especially to youths and also an instrument of destruction of good
moral behavior in our society.
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