WGST 2812 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Women Against Pornography, Susan Brownmiller, Feminist Sex Wars
19 Jan 2017
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Late modern to contemporary pornography: the conversation & pornographic privilege (1857-) Porn as a regulatory category (who gets to look and when) By 1857 britain had its first obscenity law, and the word pornography appeared in the. Now, doctors began making scientific claims that masturbation made young people ill and drove them insane. 1800s, boys caught masturbating often had their penises put into painful contraptions to keep them from touching themselves again. Girls had parts of their genitals burned off. (nathan 2007, 22) While written by men for a male audience, it focused almost single-mindedly on the depiction of female sexuality, as if male sexuality were too threatening to contemplate (hunt 375) Women"s bodies as a focus for male bonding (hunt 377) Pornography must always have the false simplicity of fable (angela carter in hunt 374) Conservatives view pornography as symbolic of the general moral decline of society.
