Sex, Erotica, nude women, three some, these are some
keywords for finding pornography on the internet. The censorship of
pornography has a positive affect on the United States of America and is a
good thing because pornography leads to crime, pornography has no positive
affects on society, and censoring pornography is not against the
constitution.
Crimes and pornography have a direct and apparent link. Eighty-one percent
of criminals rate pornography as their highest sexual interest ( ). This
means that the clear majority of criminals love pornography and find it
highly interesting, most other people probably rank other human beings as
their highest sexual interest. When an adult book store is closed the crime
rate in the surrounding areas falls significantly ( 188). Also It was found
that child molesters have a higher probability of molesting a larger number
of victims and it is likely that these offenders have some access to
pornography or erotica. ( 189). Over all crime and pornography do have a
link between them and that makes censoring it a positive idea for America.
Pornography has no positive effect on society. The American population
agrees that pornography does not serve a legitimate purpose. Seventy-two
percent of Americans want some sort of crack down on pornography. Also
Ninety-two percent of Americans want a crack down on child pornography
because it has no value and is disgusting and against the law ( 179).
Pornography was found to have little redeeming social value by artistic
criteria and is close to worth less ( 218).
The censoring of pornography is not against the United States Constitution.
The reason why pornography is not included under the constitution is because
it was demeaned by the United States Supreme court in 1973 to be lewd and
obscene material ( 173).
The first amendment was intended to protect political speech in America not
the speech that includes the exploiting of women and...
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