Censorship In Margaret Atwood's Pornography

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Censorship In the article Pornography by Margaret Atwood, the author narrates the whole essay with her own complete statement on how pornography is defined. Atwood also believes that porn should be censored. Margaret Atwood uses descriptions and compare and contrast on her pornography essay because Atwood and the Journalist have two entirely different concepts in mind considering pornography. Margaret Atwood stated that people should not watch pornography because it is an abuse to both men and women, it disrespects religion, and how teachers influenced their students. Pornography should be censored because it disrespects religion. In many cultures and religions, premarital sex and multiple partners are seen as unholy acts. Pornography exploits an act that should be kept behind closed doors and between two people. Margaret …show more content…
The reason is that one should be married before they practice adult acts when it comes to sharing themselves with their spouse or partner because when someone gets to the level where he or she commits a violent act in a sexual manner, pornography diminishes their relationship with their creator. The reason for it is in any religion that is God condones love. So self mutilation of the body will be a sin. In addition, pornography is an abuse to both men, women, and children because of psychological effect that it has from practicing such violent behavior. This type of madness can lead to hatred toward any group because of racism and religion. Further, pornography is common to alcohol and drugs because it induces chemical changes in the body from normal to mentally excited and pleasurable. Moreover, Margaret described about how education involved in pornography like how it is influenced by the teachers to students which it is impossible because in sex education courses, they only going into detail of how the reproductive organs work and the process of