Pornography’s Social Cost (Research)
Publication Information
Title: Pornography's Social Cost
Publication: Culture of Life Foundation
Author: Willam E. May
Date: 08/04/2011
In 2010, the Witherspoon Institute published a book of over 260 pages entitled The Social Costs of Pornography: A Reader, with a Foreword by Jean Bethke Elshstain and an Introduction by James R. Stoner and Donna M. Hughes. This article will present some of the extensive evidence provided by the Reader of current scientific studies to show that use of pornography causes terrible harms to millions of people today. Because of the Internet and other new technologies those harms now affect more and more people who can access “hardcore” porn instantly from around the world.





