How Does Pornography Affect People

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Register to read the introduction… Pornography is abundant on the internet. There are many websites that contain inappropriate sexual content, especially for children and teenagers. Pornography can even be found on sites that people frequent, such as youtube. Pornography can come in several forms, the most common one being two people of the opposite gender inappropriately making love in a certain manner rather explicitly .Pornography even comes in the form of gays and lesbians making love, and this is of the more extreme side of pornography. We would say that pornography is not good for viewers because firstly, it manipulates the true meaning of people, man or woman, in the pornographic videos, so people may view these men or women as ornaments rather than human beings. Secondly, the viewing of pornography may encourage the viewers to partake in sexual crimes in their future in order to satisfy their accumulated sexual desires and lust from watching pornography, leading to rapists and sexual offenders, and thus a higher crime rate. According to statistics posted by “Deadline” on the 5th of August 2012, it states that the “easy availability of internet pornography” has been blamed for more than twice as many children facing sexual assault charges in the last year, according to campaigners.“ and “The number of sexual assault cases by boys rose from 71 to 142 last year while the number of rapes by underage males also went …show more content…
Horror movies are a major part of the entertainment business which have gone onto the internet, but it may do more harm and good depending of the maturity of the viewer. Like any other movie, horror movies are all fake and fictional, so they are not meant to be taken seriously.For these type of movies, there are ratings for them, such as NC16, M18 and R21, which indicate the recommended age before viewing the movie. However, on the internet, all of these ratings are mostly gone due to piracy ,and they would be easily accessed, so all viewers can watch horror movies. Our next speaker will elaborate further on this point of piracy. The people that horror movies do the most harm to are the children. The reason why this is so is that children are mostly not matured enough to accept the fact that horror movies are fake. When they view these horror videos on the internet, they are likely to be traumatized, and this could, like pornography, affect the children who viewed these videos, in the

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