JMC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Heart Rate, Hookup Culture, Social Desirability Bias

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Journalism & Mass Communication
• Course: JMC 1100
• Professor: Rachel Young

Document Summary

Meese commission report found a positive correlation between pornography consumption and sex offenses. People tend to seek, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms their prior beliefs. Investigating sexual content in the media using social science theories and methods minimizes the effects of our biases. Sexual content in mainstream media= explicit sexual content without power dynamics and violence. Pronography is protected under the first amendement as free speech. Obscenity is not protected as free speech. Obscenity = portraying sexual content that is offensive or disgusting by accepted standards of morality and decency. As of 2015, pornography generated billion in revenue in the us- billion globally. Ted bundy - says he did the violence he did because of pornography. Positive correlation between pornography and sexual offenses. Experiments are the only method that can determine causality. Exposure to pornography will cause a response in some individuals that will provoke them to commit a sex crime.