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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Why we should/should not exercise any form of censorship on pornography

Pornography has been defined as obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit. They could also come under sub-categories such as sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. However, they may also mean lurid or sensational material which might evoke sensational feelings within an individual. For a great some time now, public authorities and opinions have been controversially discussing about the censorship and violation of sexual morality. Ironically, American courts have not yet settled on a satisfactory definition of what constitutes pornographic material.

Firstly, pornography acts like a social manipulating device that degrades people to the standards of those of animals. They completely rob human beings of their privacy, the basis of human moral ethics. Regardless of the person’s age, beliefs or gender, putting up obscene images of him or her is tantamount to the amount of humiliation he will receive. Even if the individual would willingly accept himself being constantly defamed on the Internet, that does not give him or others the right to post outrageously licentious stuff of him on the Internet.

Though some people may not find it repulsive to come into contact with such topics dealing with sex, many others are highly sensitive to such topics. In order to maintain, social equality and respecting the rights of all others around you, putting pornographic stuff may indeed be deemed as socially and morally unethical. However, who could be the one to eloquently crystallize whether pornography should really be censored?

Countries like Japan and a gargantuan and thriving sex industry, and a significant amount of the countries income would come from it. However, the ironic fact is that countries such as Japan have one of the lowest cases of rape in the world, much contrary to public belief. If we truly enforce the rule of censorship over pornography, a huge economic disaster would strike these countries, which would in turn affect other countries as well.

However, if censorship were not to be implemented, it would cause a snowball effect where everyone in the future generations would be exposed to such obscene stuff at a young age and get corrupted in the minds. As statistics have shown, most criminals of sex have all come into contact with it at their adolescence’s year and have become influenced by the materials on the net. Thus, a complete non-censorship over pornography would also be infeasible.

Pornography's whole purpose would seem to some as to treat human beings obscenely, to deprive them of their specifically human rights and dimension. Imagine a well-known man in a hospital ward, dying an agonizing death. His bladder and bowels empty themselves of their own accord. His consciousness is overwhelmed by pain, so that he cannot communicate with us, nor we with him. Now, it would be technically easy to put a television camera in his room and let the whole world witness this spectacle. We cannot do it, because we regard this as an obscene invasion of privacy. And what would make the spectacle obscene is that we would be witnessing the extinguishing of humanity in a human animal.

In my opinion, I think restricting overly-young audiences to view pornography might be a way to solve this problem, as the saying goes, prevention is better than cure. Parents and guardians of teens should also exercise strict control over the usage of the Internet, and make sure that their children do not become corrupted through the influence of pornography.

Pwnager
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