JMC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Rape Myth, The Celluloid Closet, Electrodermal Activity

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Journalism & Mass Communication
• Course: JMC 1100
• Professor: Dalrymple Kajsa

Document Summary

Remember: we are approaching these from a social science perspective. Not to advocate or shame those involved. As of 2013, porn generated billion in revenue in the u. s. ; billion globally. 4% of the 1 million most popular websites on the internet are pornographic. Pornography is protected under the first amendment as free speech. Individual items must meet all 3 standards of 1973 miller vs. california obscenity test to be considered obscene. Lacking serious artistic, literary, political or scientific value. Number of youth involved in pornography is growing. 21. 8% of adult film covers featured youth-sexualized imagery : mostly girls. Searches for teen porn have more than tripled between 2005-2013. 14% - 28% of scenes prior to 2000. 88% of scenes in 275 top-rented films 2004-2005. Anecdotal not scientific; real examples: ted bundy, hustler, etc, correlation between rape and porn is clear, logical association, but, no time sequence, or other causes can"t be ruled out.