Pornography is literally what prostituted women are forced or paid to do. It is derived from the Greek porni (“prostitute”) and graphein (“to write”).
Porn is a global phenomenon, produced and consumed everywhere and increasingly by people of all ages — deforming the sexual development of young viewers. Watching it desensitizes the viewer to sexual aggression and strengthens existing beliefs that support violence toward women.
It is routinely very violent: 82 percent of the top-rated porn scenes involve physical aggression (slapping, spanking, gagging); 49 percent contain verbal aggression (name calling, insults). The perps are male, 94 percent of the targets are female.
It’s easy to imagine pornography’s empowering effect upon would-be jihadists, who may unable to afford the price of a wife or a prostitute, who are young, without normal sexual outlets and already predisposed to violence towards women — and to pedophilia.
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