When I first stared at the assignment sheet for the infamous Junior Theme I had so many different thoughts and topics swirling around in my head that I had no idea where to start. Then as I remembered that I had been blogging about topics that interest me for the whole year I decided to use that as a reference. I noticed that most of my blog posts from the recent couple of months, when I finally started to find my voice as a blogger, were about women's rights and degradation of women in our America today. Being a woman, these topics interest me because they pertain to me the most and are relatable to me and my future.
One topic in particular that was a little more controversial was the topic of pornography. I came across this idea after thinking about areas where many women are degraded and sexualized but I did not want to do a topic that is too common, such as body image or eating disorders. Pornography sounded perfect because there is sexualized degradation of women at an extreme level, however, it is not a commonly covered topic at all. But because pornography isn't exactly socially acceptable and is grotesque I still wasn't sure whether there would be much debate around the issue or enough material to cover.
When I looked up statistics for the pornography industry in the past few years I was surprised how many different interesting areas there were and statistics that shocked me. With technology becoming so prominent in our life recently, I found it shocking that according to Covenant Eyes Porn Stats: Annual Report 2014, 1 in 5 mobile searches are for pornography. According to Facts and Figures, "The sex industry is the most profitable industry in the world".
There are even subtopics that range farther than just degradation of women than I could have ever imagined, such as, porn through the different age groups, how the porn industry has changed in the last century with technology, how porn affects your marriage, and even a bizarre phenomenon with christian men and women after they have watched porn.
It seems like there would be enough here to cover at Junior Theme than I had ever imagined, however, it still worries me how I would organize it. Or how I would slim down the subtopics and not stray too far away from the women involved in it themselves. Overall, I am excited to explore if not this topic, something else that sucks me in.
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