ound that brief exposure to violent forms of pornography can lead to anti-social attitudes and behavior. Male viewers tend to be more aggressive toward women, less responsive to pain and suffering of rape victims, and more willing to accept various myths about rape Researchers have found that pornography (especially violent pornography) can produce a series of undesirable effects such as rape and sexual molestation. Specifically they found that such exposure can lead to increased use of coercion or rape, increased fantasies about rape, and desensitization to sexual violence and trivialization of rape.What is pornography? that is the big questions that is on the mind of many activists for or against pornography. The word pornography generally means sexually explicit words and images whose sole purpose is sexual arousal. Feminists are trying to ban pornography because they feel it will lead to discrimination and violence against women, while others believe that the censorship of this type of pornography is a direct violation on the first amendment. Though not all pornography should be censored, pornography that contains sexual violence should be banned or censored because of the negative effects it has on society such as child abuse, racism, and abuse against women both mentally and physically.The terrible effects of pornography are evident in child abuse. In a study regarding the influence of pornography on sexual offenders, a sexual offender states, " I used the pornographic films in actual fact to reinforce my belief that what I was doing wasn't wrong. I did show these porn films to underage schoolgirls and after they had seen them we many times copied what was going on,". Though child abuse is not caused by pornography, it is often used by abusers to justify their actions. Therefore the influence violent pornography is more of a threat to society. In reference to police officers feelings towards the influence of pornography on crimin...
