than a person seldom exposedto pornography.(Please refer to above information for statistical logistics.)I would also like to cite a few testimonies of men and women who bothparticipated in pornography and were negatively affected by pornography. In one case, aman who had participated in over 100 pornographic movies testified at the Commissionhearings in Los Angeles as follows: I, myself, have been on a couple of sets where theyoung ladies have been forced to do even anal sex scenes with a guy which is rather largeand I have seen them crying in pain. This is a forgotten angle of the anti-pornographymovement. Not only do women suffer sex crimes resulting from pornographic ideas, theactual porn subjects are often raped without anyone knowing. There are many womenwho are abused, manipulated and drugged for the sake of pornography. Though manypeople would feel that this is freedom of expression, it is many times not done of freewill. According to the anti-pornography Commission hearing in Los Angeles, many filmshave no script and the female actress is unaware that she is to be intimate by more thanone man at a time or sodomized. Anonymous testimony from the same hearing indicatedthat the surprise factor is actually what makes these scenes more exciting for menbecause of an insinuation of rape.One of the most mind-blowing testimonies cane from researcher EdwardDonnerstein after his 1983 study. The relationship between particularly violent sexualimages in media and subsequent aggression...is much stronger statistically than therelationship between smoking and lung cancer.In spite of these studies and testimonies, the movement has only gainedmomentum in the past ten years as the date-rape epidemic has spread through ourcountry. Though many people believe that the frequency of rape may be relativelyconstant and that the epidemic is actually the number of women coming forward andpursuing legal action. Many arguments of our desensitized...
