What:
Women are involved in pornography in several mediums: through the internet, magazines, telephones, and videos.
Pornography is basically graphic and sexually explicit depiction of the subordination of women.
Where:
Most of the lines are to small countries like the Republic of Sao Tome, an Island off the African coast.
Some of these countries have about 2,000 phones, half of them being answered for international porn calls.
There are more outlets for hard-core pornography in this country (an estimated 15,000-20,000) than McDonald's restaurants (approximately 9,000).
Who:
An estimated 70% of all pornography (magazines and videos) ends up in the hands of children, with potential adverse long term effects on their sexual development.
According to computer bulletin board operators, 98.9% of the consumers of online porn are men.
86% of all rapists admit to regular use of pornography, with 75% admitting actual imitation of pornographic scenes in commission of sex crimes.
A recent study by FBI researchers of 36 serial killers revealed that 29 were attracted to pornography and incorporated it into their sexual activity, which included serial rape-murder.
Problems and Concerns:
62% of 10 to 16-year-olds said sex on TV influences children to have sex when they are too young, according to a nationwide poll conducted by Children Now, a children's advocacy group.
85% of revenue from pornographic magazines and videos goes into the pockets of organized crime, much of it untaxed.
Studies have shown a clear connection between SOBs (sexually oriented businesses) and increases in crime, such as rape, prostitution, child exploitation and victimization, increased health problems including STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) and AIDS, substance abuse, promiscuity and illigitimacy, lewd and lascivious acts, increased police and associated court costs, increased neighborhood blighting, pornographic litter, and reduced property values in the area in which SOBs are located.
In 1996, Americans spent OVER $8 BILLION on hard-core videos, peep shows, phone sex, live sex acts, "adult" cable programming, sexual devices, computer porn and sex magazines. Hard-core video rentals, strip clubs, cyberporn and phone sex sales have more than quadrupled in the last 10 years.(U.S. News and World Report, 2/10/97)
Women's ambivalence toward the issue of pornography is detrimental to the feminist cause and furthers the reality that pornography is a tool used by men to subjugate women.
Men who viewed an extreme amount of aggressive pornography were more likely to perform more unwanted sexual advances.