We as Americans have choices. Living in the nineties almost everything is acceptable, from dyed hair, body piercings, to homosexuality. When do we say enough is enough? How much can we expose our youth to today without turning them into rapist, murders, and thieves tomorrow? We are leaving them nothing for the imagination. Cartoons are now promoting sex, drugs and violence. We don’t have respect for other people’s boundaries, bodies, or privacy. Women need to stand up for themselves and stop being what the men want them to be and start respecting their bodies. Because of these women, the pornography industry is stronger than it has ever been. Pornography came about in the 60’s when independent filmmakers saw that sex sells. Since then films have got more graphic and degrading. Today there are films that are viciously violent, and some that induce death. At the rate that the pornography industry is going now, who knows what kind of images our future generations are going to susceptible to. Is it that people don’t care anymore? You can walk down the street and see virtually the entire male or female body posted on a Calvin Klein advertisement. But who’s to say that is pornography and not art? There is a fine line to be drawn to decipher between the two. There is no clear definition of what pornography is. The word pornography actually originates from two Greek words, porne, which means harlot, and graphine, which means to write. What I get out of this definition is possibly stories about sexual escapades of women. As time passed the definition of pornography has exploded to graphic pictures, movies, magazines and Internet sites. What will it come to next? 2Women these days think that they have to live up to what men want them to be. That is exactly why the pornog...
