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  • Essay / Effects of Pornography - 1618

    The behaviorist approach to pornography suggests that roles assumed in sex are learned and that men's consumption of pornography "teaches" men to be overtly or systematically violent towards women. women (Gray, nd). For example, a Vogue fashion article by Richard Avedon and a Warner Brothers billboard, which was later abandoned, said: "I'm Black and Blue from the Rolling Stones and I love it" (Gray, n.d.). As discussed formally, through use or reiteration, pornography gradually erodes inhibitions against aggression toward men and women (Gray, n.d.). Women Against Pornography targets content like this and attempts to send a message to society that media depicting violence against women should not be commonplace. The increase in the number of teenagers having emotionless sex is a worrying attitude, as the use of impersonal and violent statements such as "I hit that" and "I nailed that bitch" is becoming more conventional then that she shouldn't be. The moral implications of this are that erotica and pornography depersonalize sex by referring to and instilling in young people that women are sexual objects. This is problematic because it draws people into a fantasy world. It stunts the moral development of young people because it normalizes the use of derogatory language.