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Beals 1 Wesley Beals Professor Kaylee Baucom English 101 24 March 2022 The Black Plague of Our Day: Pornography There are many problem in our modern world that people recognize as problems: racial tension, conflicts across the world, and many more. One issue, that is not as well recognized as a problem by society, and thus, makes it easier to spread and ruin the lives of more of its victims, is pornography. Pornography is media for the sole purpose of causing sexual entertainment excitement through the performances of sex acts. The modern technology in today’s age has led to a massive proliferation of pornography, making it more available and anonymous. Pornography has been considered by some to be harmless, nothing more than a little sexual diversion and even a rite of passage into adulthood (“Can Watching Porn”). To many more, pornography is their master holding them in its dark chains, unable to break free and leading to broken relationships and broken people. Child pornography, which is sexualized media involving minors, has been banned since 1977 and if that is morally wrong, then regular pornography should be morally wrong as well (Ward). Pornography should not have a place in our nations, communities, and homes; it should promptly be recognized for what it is and disposed of . Pornography needs to be dealt with because of its addictive nature, its power to warp healthy human sexuality, and its destructive influence on relationships, more specifically families. Pornography needs to be dealt with because of its ability to entrap people in addiction. Pornography entraps its users by taking advantage of the human body’s sexual response and reward center (“How Porn Can Affect”). Like many drugs, such as heroin, Pornography hijacks Beals 2 the rewards center and over-stimulates the release of dopamine, the happiness chemical (“How Porn Can Affect”). The brain then rewires “ itself to find and experience those feelings again” and the rewiring will eventually leads to addiction if it is not stopped (“How Porn Can Affect”). The rewiring is reinforced by desensitization and leads to a porn user seeking more porn to get the same rush of dopamine that they had when the use first started (“How Porn Can Affect”). With an addiction or even an unhealthy habit of porn, comes many dark side-effects after the dopamine rush is gone such as feelings of shame, loneliness, and decreased impulse control also called “hypofrontality” (“How Porn Can Affect”). Some say that pornography is harmless or even healthy with infrequent use (“Can Watching Porn”). The problem with that attitude is that it disregards that “ porn consumption can escalate every bit as much as substance abuse or any other addictive behavior” (“How Porn Can Affect”). In addition, the exposure to porn does not have to be intentional to start a habit. Exposure to pornography is happening at younger and more impressionable ages, and thus, lays the path for addiction. According to a British Board of Film Classification’s study , “the majority of kids are exposed to porn by age 13, with some exposed as young as seven” (“What's the Average Age”). While the stories differ, the common thread associated with porn users and addicts today is that they were exposed at a young age and that caused them to both mimic and seek out more of what they have seen depicted in porn (“What's the Average Age”). The initial accidental or intentional exposure eventually led to an addiction for these kids and teens. Fortunately, more and more experts are dubbing porn as the new drug because of its capacity to entrap people in its addictive grasp and as with all drugs, society should seek its immediate removal. Pornography, in addition to being addictive, warps people’s perspective on healthy human sexuality. Those who say that porn is harmless say that it is a great way for people to Beals 3 learn about sex and are people’s only instance of learning about sex (“In This Study, 1 in 4”). Studies are finding that more and more young people are saying that porn is great for learning and getting advice on sex and sexuality (“In This Study, 1 in 4”). However, according to more and more experts, porn is very much sexual miseducation rather than constructive education for various reasons. Pornography, often, depicts violence during sex as common and normal (“How Porn Can Promote”). With the commonality of violence in porn, it desensitizes users to violence and sexual abuse over time. Pornography objectifies people and shows them as only to be used and abused for one’s own pleasure and then replaced when one is bored. Lastly, there are many porn genres are popular and glamorized that would be completely creepy and appalling in real life. That list includes topics such as: sexual assault or rape, cheating, incest, cartoon porn, and teen sex (“5 Porn Fantasies”). All these topics normalize lots of unhealthy sexual behaviors and sets unrealistic expectations for sex and relationships. Porn has also been linked with increased sexual assault and sexual violence(“How Porn Can Promote”). Porn warps a healthy view of human into a dark and twisted one and thus should be removed. Along with its addictive nature and its influence over human sexuality, Pornography, ultimately, destroys relationships and families. There are some who say that porn does not affect anyone else when it is used in privacy, but unfortunately, the dark grasp affects not only the user but all the people around the user as well; friends, family members, and significant others (“How Porn Can Negatively”). Pornography undermines the fundamental component of all relationships, trust, and it does this by urging the user to secrecy as the user tries to cover up the use and hide the shame associated with porn’s use (“How Porn Can Negatively”). With secrecy comes less communication and a very strained relationship (“How Porn Can Negatively”). Porn’s power to warp sexuality comes into play as it makes sex, which is about creating an Beals 4 intimate connection, into being all about self-gratification (“How Porn Can Negatively”). In addition, when the news comes to light about someone’s use, a loved one’s world comes crashing down as they realize they have been lied to and betrayed. Those around the user begin to have feelings of guilt and self-blame for the user’s use of pornography (“How Porn Can Negatively”). In addition, pornography can lead to increased infidelity and ultimately divorce. Elder Jeffery R. Holland, a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shared this experience when others shared the effects of porn on their marriages. He shares, “As Sister Holland and I recently disembarked at a distant airport, three beautiful young women getting off the same flight hurried up to greet us… we soon learned through their tears that all three of these women were recently divorced, that in each case their husbands had been unfaithful to them, and in each case the seeds of alienation and transgression had begun with an attraction to pornography” (Holland). Elder Holland laments through the rest of his talk speaking about how this is becoming all too common an occurrence for individuals and families across the world. Porn is ruining the fundamental thing that all humans need, connection by undermining trust and communication in a relationship. Pornography, through its dark influence, ruins relationships and rips apart families and needs to be removed so no more relationships fall victim to it. Pornography is an issue that must be addressed and eliminated from our society because of its addictive nature, warping influence, and relationship-destroying touch. Pornography is not just a man’s issue as many ignorantly claim it as (“Do Women Actually”). Porn is a woman’s, teen’s, and child’s issue (“Do Women Actually”). Ultimately, it is a societal issue that has poisoned society for too long. Porn’s dark influence is even felt, in lesser ways, as our media inches closer and closer toward towards immorality and obscenity (Holland). Porn’s normalcy in our society has caused numerous problems and if society wishes for change to a more loving and Beals 5 brighter society for the future generations, there is a fight that needs to be fought and won against pornography. For some the fight will not be popular, but in the end, it will be well worth the effort as society rids itself of the stain of pornography.