Kristol Pg.487

When you think about the way America has evolved from the early to colonial times to the present there are so many different advancements. Not only does that involve all electronic and cellular evolution, but evolution of the entertainment industry as well. That previous statement also includes a subject that tends to be taboo for those who consider themselves to be well respected individuals. The taboo is that of pornography. Everywhere you look there is a way to get a hold of porn. You can access it on the internet, or just go into an adult store and purchase it without an issue. Sometimes if you go to the movie theater, there is a chance that a rated r film can contain pornographic sequences, so its essentially everywhere you look.

Kristol says that not only pornography, but obscenity as well affect the world as a whole quite negatively. He goes on to add that pornography makes people behave like animals in situations where they need to show maturity and grace. Kristol believed that “Pornography's whole purpose, it seems to me, is to treat human beings obscenely, to deprive them of their specifically human dimension” By saying this he basically meant that pornography is another way to objectify people and their wishes. Essentially this makes them less human and more barbaric which meant that they were more like animals.

Kristol does a lot of comparing between people and animals. He says that the two separate entities are such. Which meant that they are two separate beings and should be treated in that manner. Even though sex is an activity which humans and animals alike participate in, that when you watch pornography that all you see is the animal-likeness of the actions. You do not see the human contact within pornography. He basically says that pornography is sexual regression from an human practice in which there is not only a physical connection but a psychological connection as well.