Pornography Ethos Statement

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Attention Grabber: Have you ever speculated what goes on in the mind of a sexual predator? What drives these fiends to commit such distorted actions? Or maybe how they could execute these activities with no remorse? To obtain a sense of superiority, sexual predators attack others to dehumanized, objectify and subordinate them to satisfy themselves. Though pornography might be harmless to consumers, it educates these obnoxious concepts to viewers. Which could potentially lead to sexually violence.
Ethos Statement (Credibility): As a academic student that has thoroughly conducted research on the topic of pornograhy, sexual violence and have watched an overwhelming amount of pornography.
Thesis Statement: To prevent pornography from encouraging sexual violence, the government should ban all …show more content…

With specifically, 79.7% of women reporting that they experienced forced pornographic acts from sexual partners within the past year and 9.4% of women have been forced to engage sexual activity with other individuals. From this data, Moreau shows that participants have reported that their partners are objectifying them while forcing them to obey their superiority. (Moreau, 2014)
Further on, Moreau presents that those who have reported experiences from forced pornographic acts usually become victims of severe sexual violence. Findings reveal that the 10% of women that are subjected to forced pornographic acts were eventually also forced to experience prostitution from their partners. Based on the amount of exposure to pornography to their partners, females are continuously subjected with increasingly varieties of sexual violences. (Moreau, 2014)
To emphasize the importance of this topic, Robert S. Tokunaga a professor at the University of Hawaii in the Department of Communicology, demonstrates that the amount of pornography consumption correlates with sexual aggression from his 22