WGST 2812 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Miller Test, Oral Sex, Encyclopedia
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Porn is no longer prostitution or sex work if it is photographed/filmed. Pornography is the institution of male dominance that sexualizes hierarchy, objectification, submission, and violence. As such, pornography creates inequality, not as artefact but as a system of social reality; it creates the necessity for and the actual behaviours that constitute sex inequality (dworkin 32) Heteronormative ideals a rigid idea of what is masculinity and femininity. Erotica= softer sex; no relation of dominance or violence or objectification. The category of pornography, not a given. The whore was seen as an icon of the natural world. She was a rebel a symbol of freedom. They were the property of elite men. All of a sudden, it became bad because it became mainstream democratized and those women were looked down upon. The idea was the working class couldn"t handle it. Pornography is the theory, rape is the practice (morgan 1974, 88) The how-to for sexual violence against women.