by Todd Daigneault

Created on: May 17, 2009

The short answer to this question is probably not. Sexuality, nudity, suggestive scenes-and innuendo of such-pervades every part of our existence from the Internet, TV, music, magazines, billboards and the such. Many young women dress in skimpy, very revealing and sexually explicit clothes. We are constantly surrounded by it. In a liberated, less oppressive society when it comes to sex and sexuality, porn has become almost mainstream, exemplified by increasingly more and more sexuality. Effectively, porn has become mainstream, and ironically enough many porn stars have crossed into mainstream entertainment.

When adults watch hardcore porn, it's mainly out of curiousity, and at times through a sexual release. Couples may be watching porn to revitalize a boring, predictable sex life. After some time of being together, sometimes the freshness and spontaneity is out of the relationship. Watching sometimes fantastic and hard-to-believe sexual couplings can end the familiarity in a relationship through the introduction of High-Defiition porn images. But still these things do not make an individual (s) a sexual deviant.

What does make people a sexual deviant is when they cannot separate the fantasy from reality, and through a psychotic, sociopathic break in reality, attempt to rape or molest children may use these sexual images as a primer for their violent fantasies. These are the more extreme of sexual deviancy. Usually, their break with reality starts long before that, gathering steam over the years to a final, violent crescendo. Censoring and repressing sexuality certainly is not the answer because the rapist uses the sexuality as a means of controlling their victim. Besides, it robs society of its rights and freedoms, diminishing all and certainly not stopping the deviant.

Porn for many is a healthy release-allowing people to end sexual frustrations and to have a bit of escapism into a voyeur, fantasy world. Rape, molestation, pedophilia, beastiality and other sexually deviant behavior has been around for ages, long before porn existed. Sexual porn became faulted by some as the cause for some of the deviant behavior in our society. In reality, as long as beastiality, incest, underage and violent sex is not portrayed, most porn is healthy. For a psychotic having a break in reality, any image or event could cause the final break in reality. But the chances are that the break has already occurred.

For people watching violent images of make-believe rape, incest, under-age sex and beastiality may cause a healthy psyche to be deeply affected, perhaps eventually causing a psychotic breakdown that could lead to subtle...and not so subtle sexual deviancy. But most porn if watched in a healthy environment by healthy individuals can help release healthy frustrations and be a bit of a marital or couple's aid in a relationship. After all, we are a sexually-orentated society from one form to another. But most healthy people control it in a reasonable, rational way.

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