A Threat?

I read summaries by written by Matthew Smith, Suzannah Bryan, and Kristin Gebel. There were very close similarities with the paragraph by paragraph summaries. We all saw the article in similar ways. When it came down to the individual paragraph summaries, we each saw a different twist. While one highlighted the need for careful word interpretation, another talked about the very meaning of the First Amendment. It is very hard to be unbiased and write down the facts as we “see” them. The very meaning of being human is to be unique. To approach the summary paragraph by paragraph is the best way, as I see it, to be as unbiased as we can.
I agree that the Porn industry exploits women. I also believe that porn exploits men. I have a very hard time hearing that it just exploits women. I do agree that there are hundreds of thousands of women and men used and thrown away each year. Porn not only is addictive but can lead to other crimes. I’m not saying that porn causes them or that if there was no porn we wouldn’t have crime. I’m just saying that porn can be a strong gateway to other, more serious things. In an interview with Jeffery Dollmer on Dateline NBC, he was asked what made him cross the line between fantasy and reality. He related that it was porn. When it wasn’t enough he had to get a bigger thrill. He also related that his fantasies started when he was 9 years old after finding a porn magazine. I know that there were other factors that lead him down that road but the fact still remains that porn had a very big, negative effect on his life and many others.
I believe that in order for us to have and enjoy the very freedom that we fought for we must compromise some things, i.e. to allow the production of porn at all. Since we have porn production, there must be some restrictions on distributation, viewing, and producing. If we did completely stop the production of porn we would undercut the rights this Nation stands for.