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Major Issues Surrounding Adult and Child Pornography on the Internet
The "rights" of the pornographer have been recently highly publicized.   In the
film The People Vs. Larry Flynt the pornography industry is on trial for producing
indecent material.   Larry Flynt, creator of Hustler magazine as well as a leading
devil's advocate during the 1998-99 impeachment trial in Congress, fought a
battle for the protection of freedom of speech, even for things which citizens may
find morally reprehensible. The case, which Flynt finally won in the US Supreme
Court, is one which surely distorts the original intent of the First Amendment.
Giving publishers of "adult" pornography carte blanche to publish whatever
"satire" they choose is one thing that makes the line between "adult"
pornography and child pornography slightly blurred. One might also ask if this
really should be a "view as I say, not as I view" issue. If it is believed that
pornography is inappropriate for children to view and in which to be viewed, why
is pornography appropriate to view or be part of at all?
Pornography itself has been known to be both destructive and addictive.
Educators would not intentionally expose children to things which could be
harmful in the future. Consider this information:

86% of rapists studied admitted regular use of pornography.   57% admitted
imitating pornographic scenes in the commission of sex crimes. (Marshall, 1985)
Rapists are 15 times more likely as non-offenders to have had exposure to
hard-core pornography during childhood, between the ages of 6 and 10, and
report an earlier age of "peak experience" with pornography. (Goldstein, Kant
and Hartman, 1973)
In a national poll of mental health professionals, 254 psychotherapists reported in
their clinical practices cases in which pornography was found to be an instigator
or contributor to a sex crime, personality disturbance, or antisocial act. (Lipkin &
Carnes, 1970)
Pornography, especially child pornography, is used by pedophiles for three
reasons: (1) to stimulate themselves; (2) to destroy the consciences and lower
the inhibitions and resistance to sexual activity in their intended child victims; (3)
to teach a child what to model in the sexual encounter with the adult. (Det. Bill
Dworin, Sexually Exploited Child Unit, LAPD)
87% of molesters of girls and 77% of molesters of boys studied in Ontario, Canada,
admitted to regular use of hard-core pornography. (Dr. William Marshall, 1983)