Pornography Essay

"Anne, a high school student, is moving with her family into a house across town that used to be owned by a friend of her father's. Her new room had been occupied by a sixteen-year-old boy named Tom whom she had met once at a party. This room is bigger than the one in Anne's old house, and she's anxious to move in her things and make it her own. Anne opens the closet door …

…depiction in words or on film is permitted and those whose depiction is itself outlawed. If violent pornography is to be disallowed on the grounds that it is disruptive of the social order, then presumably it would be best to disallow ALL depictions of violence, for the idea that violence is an acceptable means for resolving disputes poses a serious danger to civilized society. This would require significant changes in the current regime of censorship.