SOLIS

Daniel Solis
Connie S. Douglas
ENG 112-78
December 1, 14

Rhetorical Analysis
Pornography
Pornography is visual material on the Internet, in magazines, on television, in books, and
other mediums showing erotic content for supposedly eighteen and older audience. Despite this
restriction, almost everybody has easy access to pornography at any age, anywhere in the world.
The articles talk about the addiction issue of pornography, and how this addiction could lead to
violence against women and children. Although pornography isn't something new, technological
advances have made it easier to obtain and even, more popular with the new generations, pornography has changed the way people see and do things.
In his article, Pornography Addiction Can Lead to Violence Against Women, Daniel
Weiss claims how the pornography issue does affect violence against women and children. Pornography addiction could be worst than a heroin or cocaine addiction, according to some research done by medical experts because of the brain damage pornography causes. His article reports how children between the age of eight and sixteen have already been exposed to pornography and become addicts. This exposure to pornography has supposedly led to an increase in sexual crimes. A 2001 report found that more than half of all sex offenders in Utah are adolescentsand children as young as eight years old are committing felony sexual assault (Weiss).

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Being exposed to pornography from such a young age, affects the way a person sees other human beings. Over the years, the viewers of pornography lose feelings for men, women, and children. In the mind of the pornography addict, other humans become sexual objects to be bought,
sold, used and discarded (Weiss).
Pornography Is Not Addictive and Does Not Lead to Violence Against Women (Linz).
This author argues about how no scientific proof establishes that viewing pornography leads to
violence against women or children, or that it is addictive. She thinks that the so called sexual
addiction or porn addiction is a learned sexual behavior, and it depends on the person how to
express this behavior:
The Myth of Sexual Compulsivity" says that sex is not an addiction; it is an
experience rather than a substance. "By definition, sex is not a state of
physiological dependence and it does not lead to distress upon abrupt
withdrawal (Linz).
Linz cites Dr. William Fisher because he wrote an article "Internet Pornography: A Social
Psychological Perspective on Internet Sexuality, in which he charted information about rapes in
the United States from 1995 to 1999. During this four-year period of time the Internet sexual material increased, and so the forcible rape in the United States of (USA).
Professor Daniel Linz uses really good facts to prove his point; using scientific methods he
did prove that high levels of exposures to pornography have very few negative effects on the
subject in the research project. Either way, Ill have to agree with Analyst Daniel Weiss, because
throughout the years and from generation to generation, one can see and feel how new generations have easier access to the Internet, and how the way they think is completely different from
the way we used to think. Humans sexual behavior has changed, and children have lost the re-

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spect there once was from the privacy and intimacy of others. Today girls have no respect for
them selves, at school theres been several cases of students having sexual relations at an early
age, and even getting pregnant. Men and women become sexual objects to be bought, sold, used
and discarded. (Weiss) There is a huge demand for pornography, and one can see throughout
the Internet and news, how rapes and human trafficking is increasing over the years. Even Pornography presents a threat to the overall well-being of citizens because it depict people as objects.(Weiss) Which is the reason why Weiss made the most effective argument, and had the
biggest impact on me personally above Daniels arguments. Hopefully, in some not too distant
tomorrow, the Internet can have more control with all these pornography issues.

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Works Cited:

Linz, Daniel. "Pornography Is Not Addictive and Does Not Lead to Violence Against
Women. Addiction. Ed. Christina Fisanick. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Response to Testimony Before the United States Senate."
Free Speech Coalition. 2005. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.

Weiss, Daniel. "Pornography Addiction Can Lead to Violence Against Women." Addiction. Ed. Christina Fisanick. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Pornography: Harmless Fun or Public Health Hazard." Opposing
Viewpoints in Context. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.