PHIL 2P99 Lecture : Margaret Atwood on Pornography.docx
6 Mar 2014
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Todays porn as a sign? even more basic and fundamental. (a sign) the general hatred of the flesh. conservative ploe to turn us against sex. (make us think sex is gross and degrading thoroughly degrading ) only for reproduction use. women seen in porn(paper tigers) Desensitization: diminished emotional responsiveness to a negative or aversive stimulus (neurotransmitters) porn is believed it can actually induce chemical changes in our brains to produce pleasure and excitement, habit forming after repeated exposure to it. (chicken wings sure u get some mild chicken wings night after night u continue to go and continue to get hotter and hotter wings soon become desensitize to the taste, snowball effect) something new with boobs such as genitals on them, or lactating, soon enough torcher rooms, and all spare times spent looking at all porn soon gets boring need more hard core things (more and more of the different) (desensitization)
