Peer - Reviewed Journal Article: Rape and Pornography (Essay Sample)

Rape and Pornography
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Rape is a type of sexual assault or any form of sexual protection against an individual without the consent of that individual (Math, et al., 2014). Men and women of different ages have been victims of rape for decades now. Rape is an act that is sinful that has been brought about the spread of some diseases, psychological torture and other forms of harm to the victim; it is an act that carries more harm than the physical harm that is seen.
While pornography is printed or visual contents that are in the form of magazines or video films which have explicit contents of sexual activities meant to lure one into engaging in sexual activities. Pornography has been a content that has brought about adverse effects to the society. Easy availability of the contents online has made it hard to curb the spread of the contents. In recent studies, children have been found to be subjected to these contents which have had bad effects onto them. This is because they easily get convinced to practice what they see in the magazines or on the videos that they see. As much as some sites tend to lie or hide behind the curtains that their content is specifically meant for people above a certain age, this has not been the case. The contents end up in the hands of those below that given age limit.
With the definitions of the two, recent studies conducted have brought forth with an existence of a correlation between the two. It has been found one of them leads to the other. Recent studies conducted among the world population it was found out that most pornographic contents end in the hands of young men who happen to be below the age of 18 or slightly above that. The relationship that was found to exist is that exposure to pornography among the young men has had adverse effects in their sexual life and relationships. Pornography whether it causes violent or non-violent effects its underlying effect is that it causes sexual aggression among the viewers (Malamuth, 2014).
It was found out that access to pornographic materials to the audience creates a certain sexual notion in their minds. Not knowing those films are acted films and meant to be a money generating venture. The viewers tend to believe every activity that takes place in the content; their minds become corrupted with the imaginations that they should feel or act as to what they see. Watching of the content was discovered to bring about sexual aggression in an individual making that individual start having imaginations about the sexual activity (Bartol & Bartol, 2014). In the event that one has been corrupted mentally, and sexual aggression has been caused an individual was found to seek relief by engaging in sexual activities.
The corrupted individual tends to seek a place to "cool down" his hunger and now that no person is readily available for such an activity. An individual tends to engage in a forceful sexual activity where the other person has not given consent to that activity thus rape. Young men were found to forcefully have their way to quench their sexual hunger or put into practice what they have seen by simply raping a girl/lady. Hence bring out the correlation that pornography has an upper hand in the rape cases that have been reported in various countries.
Apart from rape, pornography has been found to contribute to sexual violence among the youth and even the married couples. This is because the corrupted individuals tend to have wrong notions of the how sex should be done. The contributing factors to sexual violence cases have been; the urge to practice what has been seen, need to feel or experience some of the moments seen in the pornography contents and also need to be considered a "hero" as seen in the contents (Fisher, et al., 2013).
With the above factors all brought about by the exposure to pornographic materials, sexual violence has been the result. Even among the married couples, it has been found that a partner in that relationship might turn to be violent to the other partner for the simple reason that "I want to see you act like so and so in the video clip that I saw." With the above malpractices in the society that we live today, pornography has been found to be the cause of rape and sexual violence among the world population. It is with this that various governments and other humanitarian stakeholders have tried to curb the malpractices propagated by pornography.
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