Effects of Media: Pornography
What is the rise in access to porn correlated with?
- 20% rise in dating violence - 19% rise in being bullied on school campus - 17% rise in suicidal ideations - 13% rise in vaping
What is the "demise of guys"?
- Zimbardo - as women are rising up in the world, men are being pushed out of the way and they find themselves feeling lost - they turn to video games and porn to cope with the lack of dominance they feel in their own lives.
What is soft-porn?
- consensual and non-harmful sexual relationships - this is like sex scenes on some netflix shows where we tend not to see genetilia, but we can see boobs and butts
What is hardcore porn?
- extraordinary and often non-consensual sexual behaviors including those that involve violence, children, animals and objects - this is like pornhub and x videos
What is the general thing about the Coolidge effect?
- porn is addictive - the more porn you watch, the less easy it is to get aroused because your tolerance is high
What are common themes presented in porn?
- sexual relationchips between people who have no intention to maintain that relationship - high frequency of sexual acts with a variety of sexual partners that emphasize the physical/technical aspects of sex, rather than the human aspects of sex - ecstatic pleasures from all types of sexual activities (including strange, deviant, violent, and taboo)
What is pornography?
a genre developed entirely to the depiction of sexually explicit behavior intended to sexually arouse it's audience