Pornography
What comes to your mind when you think of pornography? ... However, any of the thoughts that the typical person conjures up cannot grasp the impact pornography has on people and society. The effect of pornography goes beyond these stereotypes and preconceived notions. For a person to really grasp the impact, you must look at the way pornography changes peoples behaviors, perhaps even turning them into violent sexual predators. There are several types of pornography: soft core, hard core, child pornography, and several other obscure types. To explain the affects of soft core pornography is complicated. ... Hard core pornography, also called violent pornography, includes depictions of sexual acts with children, extreme sexual violence, including impairment of the body and affliction of physical pain, and sexually degrading acts such as bondage and sado-masochism. ... In violent pornography, characters can be killed, tortured, gang-raped, mutilated, bound, and otherwise abused for the viewers sexual pleasure. These forms of hard core pornography have been around for many years in different films and magazines but recently have been brought to public attention for the possible link it may have with violent sexual crimes. ... Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography concluded that violent pornography “bears a causal relationship to antisocial acts of sexual violence” and that degrading pornography “bears some causal relationship” to violence, sexual aggression, and negative attitudes.