FREE ESSAY ON CENSORSHIP

CENSORSHIP

Sex, Erotica, nude women, three some, these are some keywords for finding pornography
on the internet. The 
censorship of pornography has a positive affect on the United States of America and is a
good thing because 
pornography leads to crime, pornography has no positive affects on society, and
censoring
pornography is not 
against the constitution. Crimes and pornography have a direct and apparent link.
Eighty-one percent of 
criminals rate pornography as their highest sexual interest ( ). This means that the
clear
majority of criminals love 
pornography and find it highly interesting, most other people probably rank other human
beings as their highest 
sexual interest. When an adult book store is closed the crime rate in the surrounding
areas
falls significantly ( 
188). Also It was found that child molesters have a higher probability of molesting a
larger
number of victims 
and it is likely that these offenders have some access to pornography or erotica. (
189).
Over all crime and 
pornography do have a link between them and that makes censoring it a positive idea for
America. Pornography 
has no positive effect on society. The American population agrees that pornography does
not serve a legitimate 
purpose. Seventy-two percent of Americans want some sort of crack down on
pornography. Also Ninety-two 
percent of Americans want a crack down on child pornography because it has no value
and is disgusting and 
against the law ( 179). Pornography was found to have little redeeming social value by
artistic criteria and is 
close to worth less ( 218). The censoring of pornography is not against the United
States
Constitution. The 
reason why pornography is not included under the constitution is because it was
demeaned by the United States 
Supreme court in 1973 to be lewd and obscene material ( 173). The first amendment was
intended to protect 
political speech in America not the speech that includes the exploiting of women and
photography of women 
being raped ( 183). The founding fathers did not intend for their bill of rights to be
exploited in the ways that it is 
today they would have wanted us to have a safe and peaceful society. That would be one
that does not include 
pornography. The opposition to the censoring of pornography will say that it is against
the
United States 
Constitution, which it is not. They will also say that it is censoring thoughts and ideas
not
actions. Lastly they will 
say that if you censor one thing what is there to keep you censoring other things and
that
will lead to the collapse 
of what America was built on freedom. First, there are no legitimate arguments against
censorship all of the 
arguments are intended to frighten one into believing the way they do. The argument that
the censorship of 
pornography is against the constitution is a false and ludicrous idea. The Supreme court
did rule that it is not 
against the constitution to censor pornography. The censorship of pornography does not
censor thought and 
ideas it does not say that one needs to not ever have a dirty thought or even that one
can
not talk about it to 
someone else. What it does mean is that by censoring material published in the media
form
we will be protection 
our society. Last is the most ridiculous argument of all the on that says that if you
censor
one thing it will cause 
you to censor more and more things until the there is nothing left to censor. The
censorship
of pornography has 
worked in many other countries before an it has not caused a massive increase in the
censoring of other ideas 
what it did cause was a fall in crime rates ( 174). The one thing the opposition failed
to
prove was what is 
pornography's positive affect on society. In conclusion the censorship of pornography
does not have a 
downside. It will decrease the crime rate, it will make America a better society, and
will
up hold what the 
founding fathers want free political speech not free speech to watch children getting
raped.