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     In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged by the rape, mutilation, and polish off of over a dozen young, beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his detention in various penitentiaries, he was mentally probed and prodded by psychologist and psychoanalysts hoping to discover the root of his violent actions and get offual frustrations. Many theories arose in attempts to justify the motivational factors behind his murderous escapades. However, the strongest and most feasible of these theories came not from the psychologists, only if from the man himself, "as a teenager, my buddies and I would all sneak some and watch porn. As I grew older, I became more(prenominal) and more interested and involved in it, smut became an obsession. I got so involved in it, I wanted to incorporate porn into my life, but I couldnt behave same that and maintain the success I had worked so hard for. I generated an alter-ego to finish my fantasies under-cover. Pornography was a means of unlocking the evil I had burried inside myself" (Leidholdt 47). Is it attainable that pornography is acting as the key to unlocking the evil in more unstable minds?     According to Edward Donnerstein, a leading researcher in the pornography field, "the relationship between sexually violent images in the media and subsequent infringement and . . . callous attitudes towards women is much stonger statistically than the relationship between smoking and pubic louse" (Itzin 22). After considering the increase in rape and molestation, sexual harassment, and other sex crimes over the last few decades, and also the corresponding increase of duty in the pornography industry, the link between violence and pornogrpahy needs bulky study and examination. Once the evidence you will encounter in this news report is evaluated and quantified, it will be hard no t summon away with the recognition that habitual use of pornographic material promotes unrealistic and unattainable desires in men that can leac to violent behavior toward women.      In order to the right way discuss pornography, and be able to link it to violence, we must first come to a basic and agreeable understanding of what the word pornography means. The landmark pornogrpahy originates from t... ...onse to Langton." Philosophy & Public Affairs. Summer 1992 65-79.Jenish, DArcy. "The King of Porn." Macleans. 11 Oct. 1993 52-56."Did Sexy Kalvin Klein Ads Go Too Far?" Macleans. 2 Oct. 1995 36.Kaminer, Wendy. "Feminists Against the First Amendment." The Atlantic Monthly. Nov. 1992 111-118.Leidholdt, Margaret. Take Back The Night Women on Pornography. raw(a) York William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980.Nicols, Mark. "Viewers and Victims." Newsweek. 10 Aug. 1983 60.Russell, Diana E.H., ed. Making hysteria Sexy Feminis t View on Pornography. New York Teachers College Press, 1994.Websters Dictionary. Miami Florida. P.S.I. &     Associates. 1987 286.Weisz, Monica G., and Christopher M. Earls. "The Effects of Exposure to Filmed Sexual Violence on Attitudes Toward Rape." Journal of Interpersonal Violence. March 1995 71-84.Whicclair, Mark. R. "Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship." Contemporary Moral Problems. ed. crowd White. Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN 1994.White, Mary. "Women As Victim The New Stereotype." Spin. Apr. 1992 60-65.