SEX3; pornography
obscenity laws
- if something depicts or describes in an offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law - the work lacks series literacy, artistic, political, or scientific value - whether an average person, applying contemporary community standards would find that the work appeals to a prurient interest in sex
regina vs butler three categories of obscenity
1. material that mixes sex with violence and/or includes children 2. material that involves sex and degradation, humiliation, or oppression of another person 3. nonviolent and nondegrading to women and children (this is obscene but no illegal)
both
____ like a bit of romance thrown into porn
men
____ rate porn that degrades women as more acceptable than women do
women
____ report that women-centered films are more arousing
anti porn movement
catherine mackinnon and andrea dworkin will argue that porn is violence against women even though its consensual; women are portrayed as objects for male pleasure
middle ground
cindy gallop argues that if porn is the primary form of sex education, that people need to know it isn't real sex; it is pro sex, pro porn, and pro knowing the difference
SEM
sexual explicit material
erotica
sexual sharing
porn
sexual using
pornography
textual, visual and audial material that promotes or creates sexual arousal and presents sexuality on an unequal, unbalanced, violent or degrading manner
erotica
textual, visual, and audial material that promotes or creates sexual arousal and shows enjoyment of sexuality in an equal and balanced manner toward people of either sex
effects of porn (SEM)
this can cause erectile dysfunction, either relationship problems or enhancements occur, education for young people, violence against women/rape
pro porn movement
violet blue argues that women's sexuality and enjoyment of erotic material should not be silenced; this ignores the reality or the degradation that does occur in the mainstream porn industry
highest porn searches
youth, gay, MILF
