CUL121 Lecture 3: Cul121-Lec3

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Critical and Cultural Studies
• Course: CUL121
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

The screening depicts how pornography is a commodification of sexuality and sex to gain capitalism over consumers needs. It identifies how pornography shapes and defines how people see and relate to gender, relationships, social identities and sex, it provides for many at a young age an idea of sex and sexuality and the expectations. The idea of pornography as turning men and women into sexual products raises discourses surrounding not only equality, submission and degradation of women, dominance of men and many racial stereotypes. The division between real world sex and the fantasy of pornography can also cause issues such as not being sexually fulfilled without the fantasy element or larger issues such as sexual abuse.