Why study pornography?
Pornography, a subject part of social studies, is studied because of these four issues:
a. Used as documents in crime processing. b. It can promote disesases and/or pregnancy. c. It is sometimes compared with State-sponsored sex-education. d. It is related to the control of child/adult prostitution.
General opinion
Nude Photography is not always equal to Erotica although nudity can be viewed with an erotic perception. The people involved in intercourse pornography are real and could be prostitutes. They could develop sex diseases. Their partners could be a complete stranger or their spouses. Their activities were often made with cameras.
Porn pop-ups are a nuisance.
Known industries/trades
Youth exhibitionism (child, students, workers). Sex exhibitionism (mild, exotic, films). Nudity (partial, full, photography, painted).
Highlights/Summary
In the USA, some states allow the trading of pornography to above legal age. In China, nude photography exists along with nude paintings. Taiwan imports, produces suggestive publications. Many islamic countries ban pornography but allow polygamy. Many westernized countries allow their businesses to broadcast films that carry adult themes(graphic violence, graphic sex etc.).
Definition of Pornography
Usually human-participants in film/video/photo/drawing are depicted in an excessive, non-modest beautiful sexual manner; Deliberate material aimed at arousing male-ejeculation or female-orgasm and encourage further consumption; suggestivity to intercourse; organizational interpretations and individual interpretations; anything used to encourage payment for goods; used to project sexual imagery (and to cause recall) on the consumers; may suggest obscenity; the word is often intersected with obscenity(bad-taste), oral/genital intercourse and nudity (whether partial or full); includes any sexual imagery imagined by anyone whether by chance or by influence; sometimes used to project dominance over another; used as a weapon by foreign women (United States) against men in other countries;
Censorship suggests that the information is controlled.
Falsified material and claiming genuity (people, rape-acting); To cheat subject of profit or good-name in the industry.
Concerns
Porn that suggests prostitution is going on somewhere in the world;
Worries over existence of pornographic material whoose consumption by males that might promote traits such as: masturbation, violence, inhibition, obstructing learning or thinking, wishful thinking, mental illnesses, obstruction to daily activities. Teaching the young of the wrong values: reveal the state of virginity?;
Legitimate commerce in some countries; illegitimate commerce in others. Piracy of porn;
Man-woman intercourse-diagrams as examples used by gvt. agencies to enhance hetereosexual marriages.
The people of porn:
Well-paid stars (usually video/photo stars). Student promoters to sexual material. Student prostitutes. Threatened participants. Alien-prostitutes (on worker's pass). Moon-lighters. Paid-painting-stills.
Sometimes the stars are famous, sometimes they are not. Most participants are women(so that men are attracted to those services) Most are not so tertiary-educated.
The idea that porn is a source of income for the participants who 'feel' poor or are excited at the chance to be famous. Men financing them to do those, women managers in the act of recording porn.
Women as passive-prompters (claims to human right of exhibit) and the males as promoters in a more active-manner (just looking for income) only to reveal other stories (due to mathematical nature of human behaviour: binomial scope).
Used as documents in crime processing.
When a person is convicted of a crime, his possessions are reportedly confiscated: magazines, digital-film-discs, computers etc. for evidence against the person.
It can promote disesases and/or pregnancy.
With the influence of pornography, people may be cheated by others into non-consensus sex. Pornography is reportedly used by some males in parts of the world to ejeculate at home or else-where. Contact with semeninal liquid can be dangerous.
It is sometimes compared with State-sponsored sex-education
It is related to the control of child/adult prostitution
Comparisons and other ideas
Material that is purely about sex. Material that includes sex as 'genuine' to the story. The pop-star/musician as inspiring, the porn-star as 'promising'. Often due to lack of all-round body warm-ups?
Silky world of porn/glamour; Hardship world of landmines, illnesss and a short-life;
It is inappropriate to lump together pornography and child porn in the same category. Two consenting adults having sex in front of a camera is not a crime; having sex with a 5 year old boy is a crime. Unless this differentiation is made, the entry will imply that all pornograohy is evil, and that all people who have seen adult moview are as bad as people who desire kiddie porn. Let us make the distinction extremely clear. RK]
Child porn is also category of porn, and distinction isn't really clear (for example are naked young girls a child or normal porn, in which age does it change from child to normal porn) ? Also it might be a crime now in some western countries, but that doesn't mean it is a general rule. For example in ancient Greece male teachers having sex with male students were not only allowed, but encouraged. Taw
If your argument is that "kiddie porn, like all other porn, is now easier to obtain through the internet" why is is necessary to specifically mention it? Why not just say that "porn is now easier to obtain through the internet"? --Robert Merkel
The exact rule in the UK is (if I remember correctly) that the material should not be likely to deprave or corrupt those who are likely to see it. Which could mean anything, of course. In practice, newsagents can sell soft porn, although erections are not allowed. (There is no rule against genitals being shown - the comment currently in the article is simply wrong.) Sex shops have openly sold hardcore magazines since about 1992. More recently, hardcore videos have started receiving certificates, so they can legally be sold in sex shops. I think some sex shops were openly selling hardcore videos before this, however. --Zundark, 2001 Oct 21
Just the general observation that this article seems to focus almost entirely on visual pornography, without saying so. Distinctions such as hardcore vs softcore probably exist in written pornography too, but would have to be defined somewhat differently.
I believe that to be false. I know it to be false for Germany. Any other countries? Hardcore porn is available via satellite in the US, but not in Europe as far as I know. --AxelBoldt
There is a whole feminist critique and style of pornography, and some Christian Fundamentalists and Marxist Lesbians who took it to some amusing extremes in the 1980s and 1990s. Also "In Praise of Pornography" and other works by ACLU and tribal feminist[?] types. And an entire critique of how *ALL COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA* seem to get their headstart from a desire to communicate about sex - part of a larger critique of media and capitalism as systems driven by sexual attraction to the detriment of ecological survival. Andrea Dworkin, Gloria Steinem[?], etc., need a mention here.
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