Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Street Prostitution, Anal Sex, Necrophilia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

Porn revenue of billion in the us. Porn revenue of billion world wide. 80% of porn users do not even pay for their access. 244 million pages of pornography sited in the us. Acquiring potential patterns of behaviour and expectations of consequences of behaviour (cid:498) its dangerous(cid:499) (cid:498) exposre to both nonviolent porn and violent porn affects both aggressive attitudes and behaviours (cid:499) Learning new sexual scripts what youre (cid:498)supposed to do/guideline to follow(cid:499) Psychological theories point to possible negative effets of pornography. In practice, boils down to arguments concerning harm to individuals or society. Teens sending nude photos to another person can be charged with child pornography. People shown 19 sexually explicit slides, they were asked to classify which were obscene. Females showed greater negative affect and defined stimuli as obscene. Seems as though there are feelings based responses to porn. People who labeled the photos as porn, showed a spike in sexual activity during.