Social Issue: It started by way of messengers and scribes, evolved through the presentation of newspapers and radio, brought us together with television, and now serves us world-wide via the ever-popular Internet. It is the mass media, and even from the earliest days of its existence, it has contributed greatly in ways that both enlighten and enrich society, and ways that deteriorate and perplex it. It is not a surprise to learn, then, that the …showed first 75 words of 1770 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1770 total…extreme violence 85-90% of which is directed solely at men. Works Cited: Christensen, F.M. Pornography. New York: Praeger, 1990. Howitt, Cumberpatch. Mass Media, Violence and Society. London: Elek Science, 1975. Harmon, Check. Role of Pornography in Woman Abuse. American Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, 1998. Hawkins, Zimring. Pornography in a Free Society. New York: ITC, 1998. Donnerstein, Linz, Penrod. The Question of Pornography. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1992: pp.152-153. Bullough, Pornography and Censorship. London: Methuen Limited, 1993: pp. 255-261.