DISCUSSION ABOUT: "The Pornification of America"
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It's pretty funny when people try to say that pornography has no affect on anyone. Or on them, at least. If what people saw, read, and heard had no affect on their minds, the advertising industry would be wasting billions of dollars.
What people read, see and hear definitely shapes the consciousness. It's a fact, a law of nature, inescapable objective reality. And up until Larry Flynt teamed up with the ACLU, local governments were able to control porn shops. Now it's a free for all, with countless teenage kids (and younger ones) getting warped views of sex at an early age. Will all be ruined? No. Will many be adversely affected? Yes. I personally know of a handful of kids who have seen either outright porn or what used to be considered X rated, to their extreme detriment.
And the excuse "Well, it's the parents' responsibility to control what their kids see and hear" - that's easier said than done, considering that library computers can often access porn, high school libraries carry some really strange books, friends' houses may contain porn. It's like living in the midst of a garbage dump - no matter how clean you keep your house, if all your neighbors throw their trash everywhere and their dogs crap in your yard, your house will be full of flies and rats too.