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Psychological and Social Effects of Pornography |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / PORNOGRAPHY: AGAINST LOVE AND DECENCY |
| Author: Victor B. Cline |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 4,416 Words, 27,463 Characters |
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Two centuries after the start of the American Revolution, the United States finds itself in the midst of another revolution, this time a revolution of values--religious, social, and sexual. In the past ten years, we have witnessed a new erotic permissiveness in the arts and media that goes considerably beyond anything ever tolerated previously.
It seems that many educated Americans do not regard this with disfavor but appear to relish it as adding an additional spice to our cultural life. It would probably be fair to say that, in much of the popular press as well as in intellectual journals, there now exists a kind of benevolent tolerance, if not outright pleasure, in seeing the emergence of this increased explicitness in the depiction of sex.
To many, this represents a kind o...
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...y. But these individuals should be made fully cognizant of health hazards involved so their decisions can be properly informed. This knowledge is especially important for parents, since many sexual and pornographic addictions begin in middle childhood or early adolescence, often without the parents' awareness or the children themselves having a sufficient understanding of the risks involved.
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