Melinda Wenner Moyer, a freelance science writer based in Brooklyn, New York and frequent contributor to Scientific American Mind has wrote her opinion on the good effects of pornography as it prevent from violence acts. This review is based on her article The Sunny Side of Smut.
Smut or pornography can be defined as the visualization of erotic behavior such as animation, picture, sound, book or body gestures to cause sexual reaction. Apparently, pornography gives negative influences to humans’ relationship with others, society and within human itself. Pornography addiction seems to cause relationship problems (Arkowitz and Lilienfeld, 2010). Besides, some people worry that pornography addiction might cause violence against women. A study shows that terms relating to porn are by far the most commonly search-for terms in the internet search engines; which millions of people do searches related to porn industry everyday.
But, believe it or not a recent research shows that moderate pornography consumption does not make users more aggressive, harm relationships and people might less likely to commit sexual crimes. Dr. Neil Malamuth and Milton Diamond who conducted separate studies on the possible effects of pornography on both males and females found evidence contrary to their study. Malamuth indicated that the respondents who viewing pornography give benefits to their sex lives, attitudes towards sex, their perceptions and attitudes towards opposite sex and towards life in general. In fact, it is proven that there is no link between pornography in a culture or a society with the rate of sex crimes as it seems that when pornography is readily available sex crimes either it remain steady, or decrease.
In a nutshell, wheather pornography brings positive or negative effects to the viewers, it have little to do with the medium itself and everything to do with the person viewing it. Thus, people have to make their own decision to give the best for themselves.
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