SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Moral Panic, Fear Mongering, Sexting
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Rule breaking can occur in this enterprise, so there are private rooms in strip clubs. Functional: porn is de ned as anything that can be used for sexual arouse, can be anything from walmart yers, to victorias secret, to playboy, if it turns you on, its porn for a functional level. Genre: these are the products produced to help arouse customers, as simple as a magazine, or it could be other products like actual products (sex toys) that can help improved experience. Labelling: looks at community sanctions, what are we doing to control this problem, anything obscene by community is seen as pornography. Women disrupted more, men more aggressive to women: pornography affects self-concepts of viewers, see importance of sex, women afraid of men. Whether this is harmful for all of us, objectifying women. Internal debates _> interpretive research on young adults: feelings of both normalization and ambivalence, debates over. Prostitution connection between pornography and other ways of work.