R. Barri Flowers In the following viewpoint, R. Barri Flowers argues that the very nature of pornography victimizes women since it portrays them being humiliated and maltreated and reduces them to objects to be used for men’s sexual pleasure. Furthermore, numerous studies have found a definite correlation between pornography and sexual violence against women, he asserts. Pornography not only causes violence against women, Flowers contends, it also harms boys and men by giving them a one-dimensional view of women. Flowers is a criminologist, social scientist, and author of The Victimization and Exploitation of Women and Children, from which this viewpoint is taken.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to the author, why is pornography here to stay?
2. What is pornography’s message to men, in Flowers’s opinion?
3. What were the key recommendations of the...