Sunday, August 23, 2009

What is your position on pornography ? Is it legally protected expression. Would you limit the protection?

Pornography has been with us for a long time and it comes with many different types of media such as drawings, photos, paintings, animation, sound recordings, film, or video games. Mass-distributed pornography is as old as the printing press. Almost as soon as photography was invented, it was being used to produce pornographic images. Some claim that pornography has been a driving force in the development of technologies from the printing press, through photography (still and motion), to video, satellite TV, DVD, and the Internet.

In my opinion, pornography is fine as long as there is a limit. Parents are responsible for their children's safety and they should be aware of what internet websites their children may visit. Children, especially teenagers are often curious for sexually-explicit content and they may visit porn websites, or chatting with bad guys on the social media. It is necessary to install computer monitoring software to monitor websites visited by children, and prevent them from giving out personal information, talking to strangers, or using email and instant messaging to chat with bad guys.

Some studies support the contention that the viewing of pornographic material may increase rates of sexual crimes. Exposure to pornography frequently may results in sexual illness, unplanned pregnancies, and also sexual addiction. Most of us find it difficult to talk to our children about sex in general, let alone the harmful effects of pornography, as graphically described in this chapter. We want to protect the innocence and purity of childhood for as long as possible.

2 comments:

  1. I do think so too,it is not wrong to watch pornography as long as it is use for a good reason such as for sex education.Computer monitoring software should be install in computers for parents which have underage children,as long theres a limitation,it wouldnt be such a big problem to society now.

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  2. yes, as always parents should monitor their child's exploration on the Net. they can use websites suggested in my post. as just the same as media violence, exposure to porn is fine for children but parents should educate them about the negativity of doing wrongful sexual acts.

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