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Pornography
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Censorship

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What’s pornography?
A harmless pastime, pernicious addiction, or a source of sex
education?
According to Wikipedia, “Pornography…is the explicit
portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purpose of
sexual arousal.”
This is just a statement and doesn’t explain anything!
Lets explore a few points……
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How to look at pornography?
 A harmless and private source of entertainment
 A source of sex education
 A help to foster emotional and sexual intimacy
 A pernicious addiction

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Pornography - Positives
 In some situations, erotic material can be used as a
therapeutic aid leading to healthy outlet for sexual
fantasy - bringing a couple closer.
 Helps to have a proper understanding about sexual
contacts.
 Helps to have good sexual contacts.
 Pornography reduces crimes such as rape, etc.

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Are these reasons sufficient to accept pornography
as a harmless activity with lots of positive points?

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Certainly not!
There is one more side to the story, and that too
a grim one!
According to comScore, which measures online
activities including internet traffic, 66 percent of the
total men aged 18 to 34 using internet, look at online
porn at least once a month.
That’s a huge share and suggests a lot!

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Pornography - Negatives
 It's very degrading to women
 Spoils relationships - can become an issue for a
couple, devouring intimacy and sexual life
 Tantamount infidelity in some cultures
 Can lead to illegal contact
 Always a risk of exposing children
explicit content
 Can lead to violence against women
to sexually

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For the aforesaid reasons, pornography has often been
subject to legal restraints and censorship. And, this
censorship to publication has many grounds including
obscenity.
But, the definitions of pornography and the grounds to its
censorship differ in various:
Historical contexts
Cultural contexts
National contexts

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To conclude, not everyone is going to embrace porn as
a positive force. But it is usually possible to work
through the conflicts posed by pornography use.
Working through the conflicts means using it in some
instances like, using erotica as therapeutic aid etc.
But, you really need to be sufficiently aware, as……

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…Wikipedia makes it clear that, “Pornography is often
distinguished from erotica, which consists of the
portrayal of sexuality with high-art aspirations,
focusing also on feelings and emotions, while
pornography involves the depiction of acts in a
sensational manner, with the entire focus on the
physical act, so as to arouse quick intense reactions.”

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Beware!
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