Television perhaps more than any other medium, is the average persons first glimpse at pornography. It invades your home through regular programming, cable and videos. A large part of this pornographic blitz pairs sexual pleasure with violence and develops the concept that women are expendable (McCune, 1985: 18). There are countless plots on television dealing with rape, murder, kidnapping, and beatings. All of this done to the leading man’s wife or girlfriend and has become the rule. Similarly, pornography in movies has become common ente

Next is the newest and hardest to control pornography market, the Internet. All across America the pornography industry is invading our children’s bedrooms through home computers. You cannot access any site or any search engine without finding some link to pornography. Many Internet sites have the equivalent of an entire pornographic bookstore on line. Hard core pictures are being scanned into computers and being made available through web sites along with detailed pornographic stories. Federal law requires porno to sites make good faith efforts to restrict access to indecent material by requiring users to provide a verified credit card account number or a password. However, in a normal family children are usually the computer experts and have learned how to bypass this screening process by accessing newsgroups, and websites that display porno passwords.

Pornography is not just a woman issue anymore though. Children are also being sexually exploited throughout this country in variety of ways. Most commonly they are being used as prostitutes or models for the production of pornographic photos and films. The number of children involved in pornography range from thousands to the hundreds of thousands (McCune 1985: 76). Congress has concluded that child pornography and child prostitution have become highly organized industries that operate on a nationwide scale. It has been estimated that these enterprises may gross a half a billion dollars a year (McCune, 1985: 78). There have also been cases where child pornography and prostitution have been organized into sex rings. Child Molesters use pornography to seduce children into engaging in sexual activity. According to the Los Angeles Police Department in 1991 pornography was used in two-thirds of all child molestation cases over a 10-year period. In a study of the Justice Department in 1994 it found that 10,000 female children under the age of 18 were raped in 1992. At least 3800 were girls under the age of 12. Twenty percent were raped by their fathers, 26% by other relatives, 50% by friends and associates, while strangers attacked only 4%. The study concluded that the distribution of child pornography had greatly impacted on these results. The United States is the largest Consumer of internationally produced child pornography. On May 21, 1984 President Reagan signed the Child Protection Act into law to wipe out the evil of child pornography (McCune,1985: 81). The president said, "There is no one lower or more vicious than a person who would profit from the abuse of children whether by using them in pornography material or by encouraging there sexual abuse by distributing this material" (McCune,1985: 82).

Pornography is an attack on the family itself, the very foundation on which our society itself is built. Pornography undermines the moral fiber of the community and the nation. A nation that does not control pornography and protect acceptable standards of public morality does not survive (McCune, 1985: 14). Our families, cities, nation, and society are suffering with the disease of pornography. Pornography is built on immorality and corruption, but in this it does not stand-alone. A world in which pornography was neither desired nor produced would be a better world. However, it is not within the power of government or even the majority of citizens to create such a world. A great deal of contemporary pornography constitutes an offense against human dignity and decency that should be shunned by citizens. Not because the evils of the world will thereby be eliminated, but because conscience demands it (Cliffered,1987: 44).

In summary, Americans have a wide

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