Porn On Internet Essay, Research Paper

Why is the Internet so enticing for pedophiles? ? It?s created easily

accessible stimulation for child molesters. Anybody can download pictures in

complete anonymity. They do not have to make any kind of human contact? (Trebilcock

102). There may be definitions to describe pornography, but they do not truly

examine the destruction, degradation, and the pathetic nature of the concept.

The word pornography is more destructive than one might believe. It would fit

perfectly into Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon?s essay entitles ?Cheap

Thrills?. The essay talks about the influencing images of music, video and

television. The computer is becoming more and more influencing because of the

internet these days. The problem with this type of material today is it is

assessable on every computer that is connected on-line to the Internet.

Pornography should be eliminated on the Internet so that impressionable

individuals can not access the degrading material. Al Gore says? Some say that

we should refrain from action, that all action to block children?s access to

objectable content amounts to censorship. To them I say, blocking your child?s

access to objectionable Internet content is not censoring that?s called

parenting?( Simons B10). Eliminating pornography on the net will help to

decrease the large amount of pornography users, which will decrease crime. Dr.

Victor Cline, from the University of Utah, conducted a study regarding serial

murders and rapists. He observed users developing a four-step pattern with

pornography. The first step in his study was the addiction. The serial murders

and rapist claimed that at first they become addicted to the material. Dr.

Cline?s study didn?t stop there. The serial murderers and rapists claimed to

continue on with their addiction. They increased to the next step of Dr.

Cline?s observed patterns. The use of pornography material escalated. They

felt as if they needed more and more pornography with hard core material to meet

their needs. Becoming indifferent to others was the third stage. The serial

murderers and rapists felt after becoming addicted and escalating their habits,

they needed to desensitize. This is when they stopped caring about others. As

long as their needs were fulfilled they felt that no harm was done. They were

the only innocence in the picture. The last step in Dr. Cline?s observation

was the actualization, which is the acting out what he/she saw regarding

pornography. This is the final stage that serial murderers and rapists concluded

themselves in this four-stage process. Therefore, this is the end for innocent

adults, children, and animals to get hurt. Pulling all pornography from the

Internet will allow fewer people to have access to the degrading material. This

is the material that is a common character trait among serial murderers and

rapists, which are a belief, held by Dr. Calvin. These four steps of Dr.

Calvin?s need to be prevented by us the users of the Internet and the people

of the world. We need to take it off the Internet now before it gets any worse.

Years ago people believed if pornography was to be legalized, the demand for the

material would decrease. Now with the experience and technology today, the

demand for the material is increasing. A study was directed in many cities with

?de facto legalization.? The results of this study concluded men becoming

addicted to the pornography material and then demanding more. This study also

determined, in the last two decades, the number of rapes and child sexual abuse

has increased tremendously due to the men who are acting out their desires. This

material is like a deadly weapon. It encourages one to strike a gun when they

have it in their hand. Then the criminal uses it as an excuse to react on the

topic. It was resolved in this study that when pornography addicts become

?bored? with a certain type of material, they continue on to much harder

material. Material that consumes much more than they have previously observed.

They want the hard core pornography. They want it all and this is where the

situation becomes a problem. With these two studies from ?Is it Pornography?

article, the conclusions were both acted out as a result. When a person consumes

hard core pornography, this is when most of the violent crimes occur. We must

not allow this degrading material to destroy our people, futures and world.

People need to realize the damage pornography does and stop it now.

?Pornography is illegal for the same reason crack cocaine, steroids, and

heroin are illegal. People?s lives are consumed and often destroyed by it and

those who use it are a threat to others? (Elmer-Dewitt 636). This quotation,

from the ?Censorship II: Should Electronic Networks Be Restricted?? article,

allows us to compare how destructive this topic really is to a drug that we all

know the level of destruction. The only problem with this is, it is easier to

get pornography today, than cocaine. All one has to do is turn on his computer

and down load on the Internet. It?s much too easy which makes it incredibly

scary. Anybody can down load images in a public library, a friend?s house, at

local schools, and at any computer that is accessible to the Internet. There is

no demand for ID checking; all that?s needed is a mouse and a few clicks.

It?s more assessable than one might think. A child or an adult can load images

at any age. A Veteran Internet surfer opposes, ?If you don?t want them you

won?t get them? (Walsh 7). He claims that one must show proof of ID to

obtain such material and the material is off limits to minors/kids. This is

absolutely not true. If one is connected to the Internet, all they have to do is

type the word PORNOGRAPHY and it?s that easy. Just as curiosity kills the cat,

it also poisons the mind. Clifford L. Linedecker says, ?The chances of

randomly coming across them are unbelievably slim? (7). Coming across

?them? which is pornography, is much easier than one must believe. Typing a

word is dealing with pornography (for the sake of research) into the computer

and a few clicks from the mouse can disprove by Linedecker?s message. It?s

much easier than one must believe. This unwanted material can be accessed

anytime with just a click from the mouse. In ? Internet Child-Pornography

Peddlers, Sex Predators Targeted by White House,? John Simons claims that

since 1960 the rape percent has increased over 500%. This is an enormous amount

of rapes that occur due to the use of pornography. This article also

acknowledges the fact that 57% of serial rapists that were studied claimed that

they imitated scenes that were learned from types of pornography (B10). Among

all the crimes in the America, sexual violence is driven to the maximum, due to

hard core pornography. According to Robert M. Baird, ?Pornography in the

United States, is the third largest money-maker in systematic crime. After

following drugs and gambling, pornography has a $8-$10 billion per year

enterprise? (117). This is a large amount of money for this one topic to make

in a year, but the real issue is the human lives that are being tormented. This

material needs to be eliminated in all areas. On the Internet, this material

should be taken off 100%. It is obvious that pornography does more harm than

good. This material degrades the nature of impressionable individuals. This

material hurts the innocent and by taking it off the internet, the crime rates

of rape and murders will decrease in numbers tremendously. If we don?t give

the addicts their material, hopefully they will move on to bigger and better

ideas. Being able to define the word pornography truly, is a question we all

need to ask ourselves. We can get the definition from a dictionary or

encyclopedia, but can we agree with the definition. Is it bias on our beliefs?

Taking this material off the Internet will help to pursue the innocence of many

individuals and make it harder of the addicts to get the material. The road to

pornography, is also the road to destruction. Works Cited Baird, Robert M.

Pornography. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991. MJC Library HQ471.p6462

Campagna, Daniel S. The Sexual Trafficking in Children. New York, 1988.

Stanislaus County Library 306.74 Elmer-Dewitt, Philip. ?Censorship II: Should

Electronic Networks be Restricted?? Conversations. Jack Selzer. 3rd Ed.

Needham Heights, MA: 1997. 636-639. MJC Library H1.A4v344 Griffin, Susan.

Pornography and Silence. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. MJC Library HQ471.G74

Linedecker, Clifford L. Children in Chains. New York: Everest House publishers,

1981. Columbia College Library HQ144.L56 Simons, John. ?Internet

Child-Pornography Peddlers, Sex Predators Targeted by White House,? The Wall

Street Journal 3 Dec.1997: B10. Stanislaus County Library Trebilcock, Bob.

?Child Molesters on the Internet are they in your Home?? Redbook April 1997:

100-107. Stanislaus County Library Walsh, Catherine. ?Perspectives.? America

24 Feb. 1996: 7. Stanislaus County Library Wilson, Carolyn F. Violence Against

Women. Boston, Mass., 1981. Columbia College Library HV6250.4.W65W54 The Point

of Pornography on the Internet Why is the Internet so enticing for pedophiles?

? It?s created easily accessible stimulation for child molesters. Anybody

can download pictures in complete anonymity. They do not have to make any kind

of human contact? (Trebilcock 102). There may be definitions to describe

pornography, but they do not truly examine the destruction, degradation, and the

pathetic nature of the concept. The word pornography is more destructive than

one might believe. It would fit perfectly into Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon?s

essay entitles ?Cheap Thrills?. The essay talks about the influencing images

of music, video and television. The computer is becoming more and more

influencing because of the internet these days. The problem with this type of

material today is it is assessable on every computer that is connected on-line

to the Internet. Pornography should be eliminated on the Internet so that

impressionable individuals can not access the degrading material. Al Gore

says? Some say that we should refrain from action, that all action to block

children?s access to objectable content amounts to censorship. To them I say,

blocking your child?s access to objectionable Internet content is not

censoring that?s called parenting?( Simons B10). Eliminating pornography on

the net will help to decrease the large amount of pornography users, which will

decrease crime. Dr. Victor Cline, from the University of Utah, conducted a study

regarding serial murders and rapists. He observed users developing a four-step

pattern with pornography. The first step in his study was the addiction. The

serial murders and rapist claimed that at first they become addicted to the

material. Dr. Cline?s study didn?t stop there. The serial murderers and

rapists claimed to continue on with their addiction. They increased to the next

step of Dr. Cline?s observed patterns. The use of pornography material

escalated. They felt as if they needed more and more pornography with hard core

material to meet their needs. Becoming indifferent to others was the third

stage. The serial murderers and rapists felt after becoming addicted and

escalating their habits, they needed to desensitize. This is when they stopped

caring about others. As long as their needs were fulfilled they felt that no

harm was done. They were the only innocence in the picture. The last step in Dr.

Cline?s observation was the actualization, which is the acting out what he/she

saw regarding pornography. This is the final stage that serial murderers and

rapists concluded themselves in this four-stage process. Therefore, this is the

end for innocent adults, children, and animals to get hurt. Pulling all

pornography from the Internet will allow fewer people to have access to the

degrading material. This is the material that is a common character trait among

serial murderers and rapists, which are a belief, held by Dr. Calvin. These four

steps of Dr. Calvin?s need to be prevented by us the users of the Internet and

the people of the world. We need to take it off the Internet now before it gets

any worse. Years ago people believed if pornography was to be legalized, the

demand for the material would decrease. Now with the experience and technology

today, the demand for the material is increasing. A study was directed in many

cities with ?de facto legalization.? The results of this study concluded men

becoming addicted to the pornography material and then demanding more. This

study also determined, in the last two decades, the number of rapes and child

sexual abuse has increased tremendously due to the men who are acting out their

desires. This material is like a deadly weapon. It encourages one to strike a

gun when they have it in their hand. Then the criminal uses it as an excuse to

react on the topic. It was resolved in this study that when pornography addicts

become ?bored? with a certain type of material, they continue on to much

harder material. Material that consumes much more than they have previously

observed. They want the hard core pornography. They want it all and this is

where the situation becomes a problem. With these two studies from ?Is it

Pornography? article, the conclusions were both acted out as a result. When a

person consumes hard core pornography, this is when most of the violent crimes

occur. We must not allow this degrading material to destroy our people, futures

and world. People need to realize the damage pornography does and stop it now.

?Pornography is illegal for the same reason crack cocaine, steroids, and

heroin are illegal. People?s lives are consumed and often destroyed by it and

those who use it are a threat to others? (Elmer-Dewitt 636). This quotation,

from the ?Censorship II: Should Electronic Networks Be Restricted?? article,

allows us to compare how destructive this topic really is to a drug that we all

know the level of destruction. The only problem with this is, it is easier to

get pornography today, than cocaine. All one has to do is turn on his computer

and down load on the Internet. It?s much too easy which makes it incredibly

scary. Anybody can down load images in a public library, a friend?s house, at

local schools, and at any computer that is accessible to the Internet. There is

no demand for ID checking; all that?s needed is a mouse and a few clicks.

It?s more assessable than one might think. A child or an adult can load images

at any age. A Veteran Internet surfer opposes, ?If you don?t want them you

won?t get them? (Walsh 7). He claims that one must show proof of ID to

obtain such material and the material is off limits to minors/kids. This is

absolutely not true. If one is connected to the Internet, all they have to do is

type the word PORNOGRAPHY and it?s that easy. Just as curiosity kills the cat,

it also poisons the mind. Clifford L. Linedecker says, ?The chances of

randomly coming across them are unbelievably slim? (7). Coming across

?them? which is pornography, is much easier than one must believe. Typing a

word is dealing with pornography (for the sake of research) into the computer

and a few clicks from the mouse can disprove by Linedecker?s message. It?s

much easier than one must believe. This unwanted material can be accessed

anytime with just a click from the mouse. In ? Internet Child-Pornography

Peddlers, Sex Predators Targeted by White House,? John Simons claims that

since 1960 the rape percent has increased over 500%. This is an enormous amount

of rapes that occur due to the use of pornography. This article also

acknowledges the fact that 57% of serial rapists that were studied claimed that

they imitated scenes that were learned from types of pornography (B10). Among

all the crimes in the America, sexual violence is driven to the maximum, due to

hard core pornography. According to Robert M. Baird, ?Pornography in the

United States, is the third largest money-maker in systematic crime. After

following drugs and gambling, pornography has a $8-$10 billion per year

enterprise? (117). This is a large amount of money for this one topic to make

in a year, but the real issue is the human lives that are being tormented. This

material needs to be eliminated in all areas. On the Internet, this material

should be taken off 100%. It is obvious that pornography does more harm than

good. This material degrades the nature of impressionable individuals. This

material hurts the innocent and by taking it off the internet, the crime rates

of rape and murders will decrease in numbers tremendously. If we don?t give

the addicts their material, hopefully they will move on to bigger and better

ideas. Being able to define the word pornography truly, is a question we all

need to ask ourselves. We can get the definition from a dictionary or

encyclopedia, but can we agree with the definition. Is it bias on our beliefs?

Taking this material off the Internet will help to pursue the innocence of many

individuals and make it harder of the addicts to get the material. The road to

pornography, is also the road to destruction.

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Baird, Robert M. Pornography. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991. MJC

Library HQ471.p6462 Campagna, Daniel S. The Sexual Trafficking in Children. New

York, 1988. Stanislaus County Library 306.74 Elmer-Dewitt, Philip. ?Censorship

II: Should Electronic Networks be Restricted?? Conversations. Jack Selzer. 3rd

Ed. Needham Heights, MA: 1997. 636-639. MJC Library H1.A4v344 Griffin, Susan.

Pornography and Silence. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. MJC Library HQ471.G74

Linedecker, Clifford L. Children in Chains. New York: Everest House publishers,

1981. Columbia College Library HQ144.L56 Simons, John. ?Internet

Child-Pornography Peddlers, Sex Predators Targeted by White House,? The Wall

Street Journal 3 Dec.1997: B10. Stanislaus County Library Trebilcock, Bob.

?Child Molesters on the Internet are they in your Home?? Redbook April 1997:

100-107. Stanislaus County Library Walsh, Catherine. ?Perspectives.? America

24 Feb. 1996: 7. Stanislaus County Library Wilson, Carolyn F. Violence Against

Women. Boston, Mass., 1981. Columbia College Library HV6250.4.W65W54