cause forviolence against women, specifically rape? There are many reasons for thismisinterpretation and through the following few points, an attempt will be made toshow that pornography has very little to almost no correlation with violence againstwomen (of course nothing is absolute in society). In order to demonstrate this, itmust be made evident that pornography is not evil and does not causeundesirable social behaviour by displaying nude women in sexually explicitcircumstances. Thus, it is important to indicate that women are not treated only assexual objects through the media. This is done in an attempt to quash any traces ofevil in pornography. Subsequently, a second point, that some may consider to becompletely bizarre, can be addressed; that pornography actually reduces theamount of violence against women.For thousands of years, sex itself has been considered evil and revolting. This isexactly why the concealment of the sex organs and teaching feelings of shametoward human sexuality is so common worldwide (Christensen 1990:4). Thesesame feelings of shame are the chief reasons that sex is considered a personal andprivate matter. Contrary to the beliefs of many, the mass media did not createthese settings; society creates this image. In some societies, women have noreservations with regard to living their entire lives completely naked, while in othersocieties, females cover themselves from head to toe, only revealing their eyes. Themedia has been bombarded with criticism, overwhelmingly from the femalecommunity, relative to the amount of sexually explicit material that is published inmagazines and that appears on television and in the cinemas. A common argumentagainst pornography is that the media portrays women as being nothing more thansexual playthings and objects to satisfy male sexual desires. As before, the mediaonce again, is not to be held responsible for creating this image; these views areproducts of society. It would b...
