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Should prisoners have a "right" to porn?

bigred

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I don't know, but do you really think looking at porn is going to make these men less likely to want sex?
 
Prisioners do not have a right to porn.

However, prisioners do have a right to legally challange the terms of their incarceration, and some of them do so. After all, they often have nothing better to do with their time.
 
I'm sure whether patients are allowed to have porn varies from state to state, but as far as whether they should have porn I would say yes. There's no point in keeping them from porn. It doesn't make them hypersexual as far as I know. It doesn't make them more violent as far as I know. The benefit of taking their right to porn away doesn't outweigh the benefit of letting them have it - of course in a controlled and reasonable manner i.e. it would not be OK if a prisoner put pictures up as wallpaper and masturbated constantly.

In my state of Minnesota, the state allows it's sex offenders in treatment to have pornography. There are limits of course.
 
Alt+F4 said:
I don't know, but do you really think looking at porn is going to make these men less likely to want sex?
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Yes. Once they masturbated, they are less likely to try and rape someone.

Oops, Aepervius beat me to it.
 
Nursedan said:
In my state of Minnesota, the state allows it's sex offenders in treatment to have pornography. There are limits of course.
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They can have Penthouse and Playboys stacked to the rafters.

It's the Children's GAP catalogs they have a problem with. ;)
 
Sword_Of_Truth said:
They can have Penthouse and Playboys stacked to the rafters.

It's the Children's GAP catalogs they have a problem with. ;)
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Take the winking smiley away, because I actually think you are right. They are restricted from looking at inappropriate material like children's magazines etc. They are in prison at least. I believe it's the same with committed sex offenders in treatment.
 
I dunno... would think there'd be one or two fewer butt-rapes on average per day if they had access to spank mags.

But, c'est la vie in prison. Lift weights, eat your squares, mule a bag of rocks in your...

...*loses himself in memories of the several times he almost went to prison*
 
If any kind of porn at all is allowed into the prisons, you then have the problem of some deranged creep complaining that his particular hot-button genre is not allowed in.

I can see how certain types of porn might be useful under the supervision of a psychiatrist for behavior-modification purpsoes, letting a sociopath pick his own might just reinforce the problems that put him there to begin with.

I would, however, remove any sanctions against masturbation. If you have ever suffered from epidydimitis, you might understand how not getting relief of some sort by peaceful means might drive someone to get it through not-so-peaceful means.
 
bigred said:
I'm all for treating criminals like criminals and not exactly shedding a tear per se, but seems to me that the more they have access to this, the less likely prison gang bangs/etc they would generally tend to have.
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I think the assumption you're making is that the "prison sex" that you see is motivated by sexual interest. However, I rather suspect that much of that activity is more akin to "asserting dominance/control". As such, access to pr0n might not make much of an effect either way, neither increasing nor decreasing sexual activity. (However, if anyone has more concrete information on this, I'm willing to listen.)
 
Crossbow said:
Prisioners do not have a right to porn.

However, prisioners do have a right to legally challange the terms of their incarceration, and some of them do so. After all, they often have nothing better to do with their time.
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Well it is summer - we can have them out on the chain gang at least 16 hours without needing lights ;)
 
The question, to me, at least is this:

(all jokes aside) Is porn a luxury?


The only way I can answer this is to know what other types of media are allowed or not allowed into the prison.

Based on that, is porn a luxury when compared to the permissible generes of media.

And...is any genre of media in a prison setting a necessity?
 
There's no shortage of research linking viewing pornography with sexually violent acts and recidivism for sex offenders. So, no they should not have access to pornography.
 
Craig4 said:
There's no shortage of research linking viewing pornography with sexually violent acts and recidivism for sex offenders. So, no they should not have access to pornography.
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Ummm... not that I disagree with your conclusions (i.e. I agree that prisoners shouldn't have access to pr0n). However, do you have any references that show there is a causal link between pr0n and sexual violence? There may be a correlation, but that doesn't mean that viewing such material caused their actions. (i.e. both the viewing and the actions stemmed from the same mentality, rather than one causing the other.)
 
Craig4 said:
There's no shortage of research linking viewing pornography with sexually violent acts and recidivism for sex offenders.
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Interesting because I've seen no research that proves what you are saying. Further, if what you say is true, the what does porn do for us "normal" folk?
 
Porn doesn't decrease my sex drive in the least. Am I alone in this?
Regardless, porn does not equal sex. They are different pursuits.

Craig4 said:
There's no shortage of research linking viewing pornography with sexually violent acts and recidivism for sex offenders. So, no they should not have access to pornography.
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Such as.... (not really weighing in on this sub-topic either way, but you can't just mention "no shortage" and then provide a shortage of citation).
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ETA: While porn does not equal sex, porn really doesn't equal prison sex. As was stated above (sorta) prison sex is going to involve a lot of rape (though obviously not all prison sex is rape). Rape (to my knowledge) is generally viewed as a violent act, not a sexual one.
 
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Seeing as how the point of incarcerating most people is to rehabilitate them I don't see how porno would help. Also I don't see why tax payers should foot the bill. I am great with education and job training but if a prisoner wants porn I suggest they buy it themselves, if the prison allows it, or go without while they try a prepare themselves to re-enter society.

On the other hand maybe they are just reading the articles...
 
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