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Pornography As A Public Health Issue: Promoting Violence and Exploitation of Children, Youth, and Adults

The document discusses three sources on the topic of pornography and its effects. The first source discusses how the pornography industry has expanded due to technology and how it can manipulate sexual interests towards more extreme content. The second source discusses how pornography distorts views of relationships and can threaten marriage, family, children and individual happiness. The third part discusses how pornography patronage could positively or negatively affect character development and discusses sexual ethics more broadly and how different sexual acts and preferences can influence one's relationship with God or sense of right and wrong.

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Pornography As A Public Health Issue: Promoting Violence and Exploitation of Children, Youth, and Adults

The document discusses three sources on the topic of pornography and its effects. The first source discusses how the pornography industry has expanded due to technology and how it can manipulate sexual interests towards more extreme content. The second source discusses how pornography distorts views of relationships and can threaten marriage, family, children and individual happiness. The third part discusses how pornography patronage could positively or negatively affect character development and discusses sexual ethics more broadly and how different sexual acts and preferences can influence one's relationship with God or sense of right and wrong.

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1.

Go online and list down various sources that can help you understand the
different issues on pornography. Identify the topics being discussed by these
sources.

ANSWER:
Source: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/vol3/iss2/8/
Pornography as a Public Health Issue: Promoting Violence and
Exploitation of Children, Youth, and Adults
The pornography industry is expanding exponentially as a result of
ongoing technological advances. The ability to stream videos over the internet
and the ubiquity of the smart phone have meant that pornography producers are
able to use algorithms to target potential consumers, to cultivate new sexual
tastes and to deliver content to a more diverse audience over mobile device. The
advent of virtual reality pornography with interactive sex toys and sex robots
imbued with artificial intelligence promises to unleash a further step-change in
the extent to which pornography influences ‘real-world’ sexual culture. The
critical analysis of pornography undertaken over decades largely by feminist
academics and activists has produced a compelling account of how pornography
serves to manipulate ordinary sexual interests and direct consumers towards
more extreme content.

Source: https://www.frc.org/issuebrief/the-effects-of-pornography-on-
individuals-marriage-family-and-community
The Effects of Pornography on Individuals, Marriage, Family and
Community
Pornography is a visual representation of sexuality which distorts an
individual's concept of the nature of conjugal relations. This, in turn, alters both
sexual attitudes and behavior. It is a major threat to marriage, to family, to
children, and to individual happiness. In undermining marriage, it is one of the
factors in undermining social stability.
Social scientists, clinical psychologists, and biologists have begun to clarify
some of the social and psychological effects, and neurologists are beginning to
delineate the biological mechanisms through which pornography produces its
powerful negative effects.

2. Discuss the possible implications (positive or negative) of the patronage of


pornography to the development of one’s character.

ANSWER:
The effects of pornography on individuals or their sexual relationships
depend on the type of pornography used and differ from person to person.
Pornographic material has been studied particularly for associations with
addiction as well as effects on the brain over time.

3. Discuss a different topic within the scope of sexual ethics and explain how this
might affect the development of one’s virtuous character.

ANSWER:
Sexual ethics is the study of human sexuality and sexual behaviour. In a
word, it seeks to understand and evaluate the moral conduct of relationships and
sexual activities from a philosophical perspective.
Sex is hugely important to us all. Sex is an expression of love. It forms the
foundation of our family lives, our social lives and even our self-identities. For
many, we should celebrate sex, for we owe it our very existence! On the other
hand, sex can be the cause of great pain and suffering. While sex brings life, no
doubt, it ruins the lives of many. Cases of exploitation, harassment, assault and
rape, show the darkest side of humanity.
Sex can both make and corrupt humans. For Christians, different sexual
acts and preferences can lead them closer to, and further away from God. For
many moral philosophers, sexual acts can lead them closer to and further away
from what is right

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