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Term Paper Title	ÿDoes The Mass Media Cause Undesireable Social Consequences With Spec
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Porn

ÿDoes the mass media cause undesireable social consequences with specific reference to
pornography
It started by way of messengers and scribes, evolved through the presentation of newspapers and
radio, brought us together with television, and now serves us world-wide via the ever-popular
Internet. It is the mass media, and even from the earliest days of its existence, it has contributed
greatly in ways that both enlighten and enrich society, and ways that deteriorate and perplex it. It
is not a surprise to learn, then, that the mass media is the most powerful source of information
we have, and nothing else in today’’s world influences public perception quite as heavily.
Unfortunately, however, most of what is broadcast or transmitted in the news today is with
reference to the chaotic condition of our planet, or something else that society as a whole sees as
detrimental or damaging. But the news on television is not the only type of media taking the
criticism of society. Other forms of mass media, specifically movies and television programs
containing pornography and violence have been heavily criticized. The underlining concept to be
debated here is that society is negatively influenced, specifically, by these images of
pornography and the result is increased violence against women. This assumption, and it is
indeed only an assumption, is completely fallacious, however, as no concrete and completely
conclusive evidence has ever been formulated in support of the theory. The key premise here is
that the mass media does not cause undesirable social behaviour and in actuality, the media
people should not be dubbed as the ““bad guys””. They simply use their power in the most
constructive ways possible in order to promote their ratings and popularity. One way to do that is
to concentrate on what sells: sex, violence and disaster.
Having said this, why is it then, that many in society still believe otherwise; why do they
continue to believe that pornography is ““evil”” and is a major cause for violence against
women, specifically rape? There are many reasons for this misinterpretation and through the
following few points, an attempt will be made to show that pornography has very little to almost
no correlation with violence against women (of course nothing is ““absolute”” in society). In
order to demonstrate this, it must be made evident that pornography is not ““evil”” and does not
cause undesirable social behaviour by displaying nude women in sexually ex...

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