Banning pornography may actually be detrimental to many women. First, many believe that pornography exploits and degrades women. This statement seems hard to believe, as women in the porn industry make far more money than their male counterparts. A male porn star has made such claims. “The average guy gets $300 to $400 a scene, or $100 to $200 if he’s new.
Pornography has a cumulative effect, the more times you watch it the harder it is to let go of it. It's illustrated as, the more times you view, it the more a string tangles around your hands, and then it gets harder and harder to untangle. Pornography can come across us anything of the day, or... especially at night. Pornography is a world-wide problem, research shows that 9 out of 10 men and 3 out of 10 women view it regularly; it also says that 25 percent of males are addicted to it. That's like, every 4 males you see, one is an addict.
Legalize It Every year in America billions of dollars are made illegally, thousands of people are imprisoned, and even more people lose their lives to drugs. On a broad level, illegal drugs ruin whole communities by perpetuating the disease of addiction and engulfing neighborhoods in the gang violence that inevitably comes with illegal drug trafficking. On a more personal level, illegal drugs ruin lives by making people turn their backs on loved ones and causing them to throw away their dreams. Most people agree that a problem that is this pervasive and expansive must be dealt with, but few can agree on a solution. There is only one practical solution.
Youth, Gender and Pornography A major research project has been launched in the Nordic countries which studies the way in which the spread of pornography is affecting the perception of gender by young people. The background for this project comprises changes in the cultural status of pornography that have followed in the wake of the development of new media. By Susanne V. Knudsen and Anette Dina Sørensen From newspaper articles, anthologies and a handful of recent individual studies, in which young people are allowed to voice their own opinions, we know that teenagers of both sexes watch pornography, their motives being partly curious, partly sexual and partly connected with their need for information about sexuality (e.g., Mossige 2001, Håvold and Moen 2003, Søndergaard 2002). On the other hand, we have no concrete knowledge about the way that increasing exposure affects children and young people, about their attitudes to what they are watching, and the way that this relates to their perceptions of sexuality and gender and to their own sexual experiences. The few Nordic researchers who have studied this problem disagree about whether exposure to hard-core pornography has any effect upon well-balanced children and young people and, if it does, what kind of effect we are dealing with.
He states that the real problem in our safety net is that people really do cheat on welfare or use their benefits in appropriately. Mostly people have been proven to be financially ineffective at best and irresponsible at worst. It would prove beneficial to our system if there was drug testing of some sort for TANF applicants in order to weed the ones who are scamming our system and as far as something like this being put into place this one isn’t as bad as some possibilities. This program will probably turn out to be just as bad an investment as the other states programs that have cost tax payers millions of dollars with out doing much to reduce the burden of welfare. At least this one encourages participants to get help.
The media had to go through $1.25 billion in damage and lost battle. In fact, the industry claims that 30-70% of the videos on YouTube are illegally downloaded. Since customers were now watching movies for free, this put a great impact on them. Sales of DVDs were declining while downloading and watching movies online were growing. So, to solve this problem, the movie and television studios decided to do something about this.
I. Counterfeiting is a real social and economic scourge Copying a product is theft: counterfeiting is a serious breach of intellectual property rights, since the counterfeiter steals the profit, usurps the reputation and reaps the benefit of all the investment that has gone into the product’s design, advertising and market positioning. The OECD estimates that counterfeits represent around 5% to 7% of world trade today for a volume of approximately €193 billion. France is particularly at risk due to its famous brands in the luxury sector. Counterfeiting costs the country some 30,000 to 40,000 jobs a year, and €6 billion in losses for the French economy. Half of all French businesses report that they are victims of this crime.
The major downside, however, is that one could lose it all in an instant. Consequently, as the addiction to continue chasing the jackpot grows, an insurmountable debt accumulates. Moreover, the urge to keep gambling becomes too great to abandon and eventually becomes financially problematic. Available evidence suggests that job loss and unemployment rates among gambling addicts are very high. This is because the gambling distractions cause decreased job productivity and multiple missed days at work.
Cigarettes are also one of the top purchased items in the world. “Worldwide, approximately 10 million cigarettes are purchased a minute, 15 billion are sold each day, and upwards of 5 trillion are produced and used on an annual basis” (Martin). Smoking is harmful to smokers and even the people and environment that surround them. The smoke from tobacco contains over 4,000 chemical, 450 of those chemicals are very harmful and even deadly to humans (“Tobacco”). Cigarette smoking should be banned because they are harmful to the smokers’ health, they’re harmful to nonsmokers’ health, as well as, being harmful to our environment; however, banning the use cigarettes could be very detrimental for our economy.
Rebecca Jackson Final Research Paper Draft One 11/15/11 Prof. Platz Child Pornography and Pedophilia: A Multidimensional Viewpoint Child porn is by definition, the illegal use of children in pornographic pictures or films. Many assume that a person who views child pornography is always exclusively a pedophile and always wishes to seek out children to abuse. Pedophilia is defined by sexual feelings towards children and while those viewing child pornography have definite sexual feelings while viewing child pornography, it may be just feelings and the viewer will never progress towards real life interaction. According to Carlson, the viewing of child porn leads to pedophilia and child abuse. “Studies suggest a strong correlation between those who seek out child pornography and those would be diagnosed as pedophiles.” (Carlson 27).