Negative effects of Pornography

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Negative effects of Pornography
Pornography is a visual illustration of sexuality that disfigures a person`s concept of the type of conjugal relations. Thus therefore alters the sexual behavior and attitudes of any person. Pornography has become a major threat to marriage, to children, to family and to a person`s happiness. It is one of the major causes that undermine social stability. Clinical psychologists, social scientists and biologists have started to give clarity on some of the psychological and social effects and neurologists as well have started to define the biological mechanisms through which pornography has produced its powerful negative effects. The effects of pornography on the mind are deep as it distorts the perceptions and attitudes about the disposition of sexual intercourse (Shmuley 43). The effects on the body and the heart are also very severe.
The effects of pornography on the individual
It is a known fact that pornography alters the habits of the mind as it can easily become habitual. This is in turn advances desensitization, distorted views of reality, boredom and an objectification of women.
Pornography leads to distorted perception of reality
Pornography gives an exaggerated perception of social reality. Instances such as pervasions of group sex, sadomasochistic activity as well as bestiality are formed in the minds of the viewer and such thoughts become farfetched from reality. Such distortions lead to an acceptance of three beliefs: that men are generally sexually driven, that sexual relationships are a leisure thing and that women are sex commodities. This belief leads to people internalizing abnormal sexual behavior more readily and is a serious distortion to social life of a person as they readily accept sexual permissiveness (Armour 18).
Pornography leads to aggression and abuse
Extreme usage of pornography is strongly associated with aggressive behavior. A major portion of pornography has strong violent content. In men especially, when they get exposed to violent forms of pornography they are more likely to commit such acts. Also it increases a man`s willingness to force such acts on their partners. Even soft pornography that may involve acts among consenting adults may lead to extreme violent behaviors. The FBI has also reported that soft pornography has led to numerous male suicides especially among adolescents where an individual suspends themselves on a rope in the hope of achieving intense orgasm. In other scenarios young kids have killed their friends following advice in some of the soft core magazines.
All pornography desensitizes the viewer.
Pornography desensitizes a person and allows that person to become conditioned to violent and nonviolent sexual acts making such behaviors to become an integral part of their behaviors (Cline 54). More than two thirds of students who watch pornography are willing to force any woman to such...