PORNOGRAPHY, SOCIETY AND YOU

Over the past decade there has been a large increase in the pornographic materials that are available to both adults and children. This increase is tied to a couple of factors: they are accessible, affordable and anonymous. By accessibility, it is meant that anyone can use them on the Internet. It is affordable because they are offered free by many online websites. They are anonymous because they can be viewed privately without visiting an adult book store or a public theatre. This development, in terms of availability of pornographic materials, has often been interpreted as a healthy liberation from the suffocating sexual mores of older generations. While it is true that society has evolved from its Puritan prudishness, this work thinks that the pendulum has swung too far when it comes to the ubiquity of pornography in our contemporary world. This work has studied the impact of pornography on individual persons and on the society at large and submits that pornography creates a dependency culture that weakens the individual; it also causes a disruption that weakens marriages and results in a distortion in thinking that weakens the ability of individuals to relate and function.