Pornography pt.5

This is the message I want to get across, that as a young boy, and I mean a boy of 12 or 13 certainly, that I encountered, outside the home again, in the local grocery store, in a local drug store, the soft-core pornography that people called soft core. As I think as I explained to you last night, in an anecdote, as young boys do, we explored the back roads and sideways and byways of our neighborhood and often times people would dump the garbage and whatever they were putting out of their house. And from time to time we would come across pornographic books of a harder nature than, of a more graphic, explicit nature than we would encounter at the local grocery store. And this also included such things as detective magazines.

And this is something I think I want to emphasize is that the most-damaging kinds of pornography, and again I'm talking from personal experience . . . are those that involve violence and sexual violence. Because the wedding of those two forces is, as I know only too well, brings out the hatred that is just, just too terrible to describe.

Before we go any further, I think it's important to me that people believe what I am saying. I tell you that I am not blaming pornography. I am not saying that it caused me to go out and do certain things. That's not the question here.

The question and the issue is how this kind of literature contributed and helped mold and shape the kinds of violent behavior