Pornography and Sexual Freedom
Pornography is very prevalent in our modern society today. As our culture gets more and more desensitized, the occurrence of pornography and sexual explicit material that we are exposed to increases that much more. ... To say that sexism is distributed to our society by pornography, there are both reasons for and against a statement like that. ... Pornography is described as a tool for inequality for women used by men according to John Stoltenberg in his article. He feels that men who view pornography also view women in a different way; as males who view or take part in pornographic acts look at women in a more dominating type of way. Sexual freedom, I think, is achieved through individual judgments of oneself, not the judgments of a society as a whole. However, I also think that the sexual aggression that people (men in particular) may have can be expressed out towards women because of the example that can come from pornography. The moral aspect of sexuality in our society comes into play when we talk about pornography. ... Sexual morality has declined in America nowadays. ... Any commercial break throughout that sitcom is guaranteed at least one sexual innuendo or advance from a sexually aggressive man towards a woman. People take sex for granted now, as a fleeting act rather than a shared display of love, and pornography fits right into the downward spiral of immortality that feeds into this violation of intimacy. ... Any movie network at any given time will have a sexual oriented movie on, especially late at night. ... Our sexual freedom, as society goes, seems to be very open. As all of these things are displayed as they are in our culture, they seem to tell us that aggressive sexual advances towards the opposite sex are warranted. ... Pornography further compounds the feeling.