Porn vs. Rape
Pornography and rape are two completely different issues that basically have no interaction at all and do not affect one another. In the Morgan article, the author talks about how porn has lead to the steady increase in crimes against women, and even goes as far as the legislative branch to say that there is no protection for women and that the legal system is unfair. There is little evidence that pornography is the catalyst for a rapist to go out and commit his crime, thus pornography does not cause men to discriminate against and become violent towards women.
The article that Robin Morgan has written is extremely one sided and is lacking in information to back up what she is trying to say. Her jugdement against the porn industry is not open minded and is the result of her research has shown that she has not fully examined all possible opinions. For example, she talks about how women in a Southern town planned to talk over a sex shop and humiliatingly photograph the men who walked into the shop as a way to embarress them about their dirty habits. If I'm not mistaken, I'm sure that this is an illegal practice because it denies people of their right of freedom of speech and the right that they have to do what they want. Most people who go into a sex shop are afraid to be seen as it is but to have them photographed without them willingly want it, is unfair to those people who are just looking for some entertainment. This view is that of a feminists or someone who is radically against pornography or sexually explicit shops.
Another aspect that was bothersome about this article was the fact that she said that the government should be changed to having an all female staff for the cases against women, instead of "old men who are getting ready to read a lot of dirty books with one hand" (140). This should be seen as a slap in the face to the entire male population because she is basically saying that men are incapable of properly handling a case where a woman has been violated, thinking that an all male jury would side with the man purely because of the fact that they are men too. Not all men are rapists and to pin that assumption on them is an immature action that should not be published for the public to be influenced with.
Overall, the main point of the Morgan article was to show that she believes that porn is what influences aggressive men to go out and commit a rape of an innocent victim. This point however is extremely skewed due to the fact that her sources of information is from feminists themselves who are already against men. This unfair means of publication should not be shown in a setting where a lot of people will be influenced mainly due to the obvious fact that the author does not know what she is talking about and does not have an equal balance of opinions
