Pornography, like rape, is a male invention, designed to dehumanize women, to reduce the female to an object of sexual access, not to free sensuality from moralistic or parental inhibition. . . . Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.
Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women and RapeSince its induction into mainstream American culture, defining and regulating pornography has been a difficult task for the United States. With free speech protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and largely regarded as the backbone of what defines us as a free society, regulating pornography is regulated has been a historically notorious problem. Literature largely defines pornography as: writings, pictures, etc. intended primarily to arouse sexual desire (Baird, et al., 1991). Though scholars argue over the exact definitions and reasons for pornography "the producers, sellers, and consumers of pornography have a clear understanding of its meaning.
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Peep show window displaying pornographic entertain...For them it is a written or visual product showing sexual anatomy and/or sexual activity designed to promote sexual arousal" (McCuen, 1985). But does pornography in and of itself promote sexual violence against women?There is no doubt that through the ages many men have sought and attained sexual access through violent action or the threat of such action. No nation has been without rape; the forcible sexual assault of strangers, associates, friends and relatives alike has been a universal occurrence throughout the history of mankind, and it has remained so in contemporary society. "Regardless of the particular evaluation of rape and quasi-rape in terms of social unacceptability and pathology, however, sexual access through the use of physical force undoubtedly constitutes a domain of behavior in which pornography and sexual aggression appear to be intimately linked" (Berger et al., 1995).
Pornography inherently depicts women in a negative light. In most pornographic...