Pornography, Protection, And Privacy

Tropp, Sandra Fehl., and Ann Pierson. D'Angelo. "Pornography (1983)." Essays in Context. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. 543-47. Print.

Lisa Sigel’s, urge towards more historiography within the realm of pornography appears to be a vital response to the contestations concerning a comprehensive understanding of such a chaotic topic. To begin with, Sigel explores the discord revolving periodisation and delineation. She particularly looks at debates around the period the genre was formed as well as the challenges to formulate a single universal definition of pornography (pp. 223-224). Subsequently, her article veers towards research that has been conducted by other disciplines in the field, but it does so in correlation to what work historians should initiate in clearing the gaps that are left behind. Here, Sigel talks of the issues power and censorship has imbued on the research of pornography but she, moreover, examines how this could be corrected. She exemplifies the analyses of literary and art scholars, including Bradford Mudge, Sarah Leonard and Alyce Mahon, as a way forward for historians (pp. 227-231). Sigel goes on to argue that the result of historian work would help align pornography to specific socio-political contexts. She goes on to explore some of these contexts and insists that by continuing this contextualisation process a better understanding of pornography will be obtained (pp.231-233).

Anne McClintock’s “Gonad the Barbarian and the Venus Flytrap”, focuses a lot of attention on how from the beginning of history, women have been denied some of the basic rights and freedoms that have been essential to the way that men live. Starting back from the times where they couldn’t vote and when women were basically seen as property when wedded. Women today and even in the earlier days could not express their sexuality and could not show that they were sexual beings. Anne McClintock gives the idea that women should be able to have the things that men have and they should be able to express it in the same way as men. In this essay, I will analyze how Anne McClintock views pornography as a form of pleasure that is mostly consumed by men and how women are incorporated into the employment of the industry and even in the home setting.

The pornification (or alternatively pornographication) of the social world has created lasting effects in the lives of people that they must deal with every day (Dines 1998, p. 164). Pornification is the process by which the social and cultural world is sexualised. This occurs through the expansion of media technology and the pornography industry, as well as changes in media regulations and restrictions which allow pornographic imagery to intrude into public spaces (Tyler 2011, p. 79). This essay will offer explanations for why the pornification of the social world is occurring, how the phenomenon differs from a freedom of expression issue and is instead considered a sociological issue, what consequences and harm arise from these explanations, and will offer social measures that can be adopted in order to deal with the issue. Pornification has occurred in almost every realm of the social world, including in its unaltered form on the Internet, social media, marketing, advertising, music, fashion, sport, and art. However, this expansion of easily accessible pornified content is a stark and confronting challenge for our social world.

It is difficult to imagine a time when images of women's naked bodies were kept behind closed doors – from Victoria's Secret advertisements boasting busty blondes to shows like Game of Thrones using soft-core pornography to advance storylines, it is nearly impossible to avoid images of women bearing all. It is easy to forget that as recently as seventy years ago, women's scantily clad bodies were considered lewd and could only be accessed through purchasing publications like Esquire magazine. For a mere fifty cents per issue, anyone could have George Petty and Alberto Varga's drawings of women in tight clothing, provocatively posed and looking downright sexual delivered right to their doorstep.

Authors around the world are hiding behind a fake literary name,formerly known as a pen name. The brilliant minds have had to resort to pen names because of gender discrimination,mostly for women, and the ability to publish books.

To prove that women’s oppression in today’s society is constructed through the pervasiveness of pornography involves a close examination of the intricate relationships between: gender, sexuality, social hierarchy, ideology, power and objectification. When the forces of operation are understood, it becomes clear that pornography is the grease by which women are relegated to a second-class status. Furthermore, an exploration of how pornography benefits individual sexuality will follow. The perceived benefits of pornography will be disproven and it will become obvious that the perpetrator of inequality is pornography.

““Names are not always what they seem.”” ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World”. Labels, tags, names and titles given to an individual do not truly define their true character. Society are the ones who give tags and labels to one failing to know the person’s identity. One must recognize that a name is just a form of differentiating a person, but not their uniqueness that comes along with them.

As a form of media to be consumed, pornography ranks high on the controversy charts. Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu, Mireille Milller-Young, and Tristan Taormino talk about the importance of pro-porn feminism and how anti-porn feminist’s beliefs can in fact be repressive towards the rights of women (and everyone).

In the article “What’s in a Name?” “For many writers, turning to a pen name is the only way to get published.” Many people who are

Primarily, Rortian irony backs the author’s claims that the possibilities of porn are a worthwhile area for continuing discussions between anitporn and sex-radical feminists. This article stresses the importance of how pornography must be a part of a larger dialogue about sex, sexual health, and the construction of identity. Furthermore, everyone must discern whether porn can be, or should be, a part of her belief structures and her identity. For feminists, this must include persistent examinations of all facets of social discourse that impact female sexual and gender formations. “Moreover, Pornography can neither be ousted from nor adopted wholly into all feminist discourse (Fallas, 104).” These actions would ensure that these feminist conversations remain stagnant and thereby future activisms and advocates become nullified before they begin. Fallas mentions that to make progress and ensure stability for all women in society, it’s necessary for feminists on all sides of this argument to come to an acceptance of each other’s terms. For women to be perceived as full and equal partners in society, they must be “privy” to the same rights (including erotic, sexual, pleasurable) as men. Through an ironist point of view, these individual truths can be incorporated into feminist dialects and the definitions for

The pornography debate has been an issue within the feminist movement that has been pushed to the periphery in recent times. It is not as widely seen on the main stage of the feminist agenda and this may be because of a division in feminist thought with regards to pornography. Generally speaking, there are “pro-sex” feminists who believe that women have the right to do what they wish with their bodies and there are “pro-censorship” feminists who believe pornography is inherently degrading and violent towards women. In this paper I am going to discuss the views and opinions held by each faction of the pornography debate and I will discuss the pros and cons of each view and discuss how every day women (i.e. not scholars/academics) feel about pornography.

Thesis – Multiple outlooks have been taken on the ethics of pornography, and the means by which it may either negatively influence power in sexuality, or actually provide some sort of social value and worth. These different ethical perspectives display the flaws in the industry and what it represents; yet they also end up proving the fact that it can be modified with positive influence and that pornography is not something to be deemed utterly unethical.

The argument over the morality of pornography can take shape in many different ways. In order to take a stance, it's important to identify what exactly is included in the definition of pornography. In this paper, pornography will be defined as sexually explicit materials in which the acts depicted degrade or subordinate women. The degradation and subordination can occur through various different acts, but in an attempt to curtail the wordiness of the definition, those words are used to include any act that misrepresents or defames women. Erotica on the other hand, which is not part of the moral argument of pornography, is sexually explicit material that portrays

In recent years, pornography has established itself as perhaps the most controversial topic arising out of the use of the Internet. The easy availability of this type of sexually explicit material has caused a panic among government officials, family groups, religious groups and law enforcement bodies and this panic has been perpetuated in the media.