Topic > Essay on Pornography - 2013

Pornography is an act of male supremacy and it becomes difficult to see the true harm of pornography because it has become deeply ingrained in our daily lives (Jeffreys 1990). While few can see the damage pornography has caused to our culture, the problems resulting from excessive pornography viewing become apparent when you delve deeper. Professor Freda Briggs believes that pornography is one of the reasons why young children sexually abuse other children at school (Knowles 2014). Addiction is also another serious result of excessive porn. While it may not be taken as seriously as drug or alcohol addiction, it is still a very real problem that many men face. Gail Dines believes that young people addicted to porn “neglect their schoolwork, spend enormous amounts of money they don't have, isolate themselves from others, and often suffer from depression” (Dines 2010). Dr. William Struthers confirms some of these and adds that men who use porn become controlling, highly introverted, highly anxious, narcissistic, curious, have low self-esteem, depressed, dissociative, and easily distracted (Struthers 2010). It also teaches men to see women as objects and not as human beings, and teaches them that sex is something a man does for himself using another woman as a means of experiencing pleasure, almost as if the woman were more of a product to use than a person.