The lyrics are usually obscene and the tape or compact disc provides entertainment for a hard-core pornographer. Since it is easily available and widely distributed, gangster rap is especially harmful to young people who look up to these rappers as heroes. While rap music is sometimes alright to listen to, the print media is seductively applying their trade with high-tech visual images. .
Pornography slithers its way into several different magazines and books. The three most well known pornographic magazines are Playboy, Hustler, and Penthouse. Of these three, Playboy employs the approach in which centerfolds are portrayed as the girl next door. So readers are deceived into believing that everybody is using pornography. For this reason, Playboy may be more harmful than hard-core pornography, especially to the young. Playboy then uses articles about famous people to legitimize the pornography inside the magazine. .
Other powerful visual images appear as advertisements. If you watch TV, ride a bus, or read magazines you have witnessed the lengths that companies will go to sell a product or an idea. The Design Industries Foundation for Aids plastered posters in cities depicting couples of all persuasions engaged in acts of all descriptions. Each poster bears the caption Safe Sex is Hot. We have all seen the gaunt Super Model whose vacant stare, unsmiling lips and frequently nude 105-pound body are on endless public display, mostly as Calvin Kline ads. .
Next is the newest and hardest to control pornography market, the Internet. All across America the pornography industry is invading our children's bedrooms through home computers. You cannot access any site or any search engine without finding some link to pornography. Many Internet sites have the equivalent of an entire pornographic bookstore on line. Hard core pictures are being scanned into computers and being made available through web sites along with detailed pornographic stories.