Sociology SOC-R 320 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Child Pornography, Personal Boundaries, Shemale
27 Apr 2016
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Erotica: positive (mutual love, respect, affection, and balance of power, artistic value) Pornography: negative (depicts sexuality and causes viewer arousal) Obscenity illegal in us (but subjective on what is and what isn"t) Sexually explicit material (sem): may cause sexual arousal. Technology transformed production of sem in 19th century. Several billion dollars annually in us from sem. Femme porn: sem catering to women and hetero couples. Searching for sem is most common online sexual activity. Women reported more benefits in improving sex beh w/ partner. 75% men, 41% women viewed erotic images/films online: men got more of a solitary benefit. More women said it decreased the amt of sex they had and made them more critical of themselves: men said it lowered their interest in having sex and made them more critical of partner"s body. Films reinforce unhealthy images of sexuality (man dominant, etc) Men: more porn = more sexual partners and more premarital, casual, and extramarital sex: and women.
