In the non-fiction text, Empire of Illusion, author Chris Hedges asserts, “One-quarter of total daily search-engine requests, or 68 million, are for pornographic material. There are 40 million Americans who are regular visitors to porn sites” (80). Pornography is a ubiquitous industry that needs further evaluation concerning its negative implications on the world. Surprisingly, the most concerning fact is that the biggest users of Internet porn are between the ages of 12 and 17 (Hedges 58). Essentially, your future kids or kids may be part of the integration of a pornographic culture built on an illusion of love. The adult industry has already dealt its damage, and the damage is severe. The adult industry has injected itself into the world, …show more content…
As a result, pornography is a precursor of women’s degradation reflected in the real-life culture. Hedges describes Las Vegas as the “illusion of the exotic banal comfort of the safe and familiar” (64). Basically, Las Vegas is the most blunt debaucheries of America, and a direct correlation to our consumer-product industries. Porn is no different. Pornography was a product negligently implanted in the real-life culture. Most of our kids today will slander each other with crude jokes, such as “sexual humiliation, abuse, rape, and physical violence” as socially acceptable expressions (Hedges 74). The problem with the acceptance of porn is women’s portrayal as lesser humans, leaving society with a shattered image of gender inequality. In addition, in the article, Does Porn Hurt Children, writer David Segal introduces Miranda Horvath, a professor of psychology at Middlesex University in London, who reveals a notable debate with a group of teenagers. The teenagers against porn said, “It had an impact on their body image, on what young people think sex should be like, what they could expect from sex” (Segal). The sheer truth to pornography’s effect on men is undoubtedly creating sociological complications for an intimate relationship. Men are becoming indifferent to a woman’s feelings, and seeing women as only objects with a voracious desire to satisfy them (Hedges 57). Similar to the Las Vegas’s illusion, the mortification of women through pornography creates a misogynistic world for only man’s pleasure. Not only does it create unrealistic expectations, but it also imposes health problems for those in the adult industry and