Erotica

For centuries, humans have been creating explicit images to depict their sexual fantasies and desires. Times have drastically changed, however, since the first known sex guide, Kama Sutra, was illustrated in 5th-century India (King 412). The selling of sexually explicit material is a multibillion dollar industry (King 411). Today, with just the click of a mouse, millions world-wide are able to access pornography and see their sexual fantasies come to life (King 418). According to King, “One third

Everyone’s been hearing about the fuss that VR porn has been making for the past couple of years, but most of it is from men’s perspective and obviously they all agree that virtual sex sounds and feels appealing. But what about us, what should we make of it? Can VR porn improve our sex experiences in the near future? VR Goes Mainstream Last year, VR witnessed quite a lot of fame and its popularity has been constantly growing all over the world. This year, VR is expected to develop even more and

What is pornography? According to the dictionary pornography means “Obscene writings, drawings, photographs”. Yet, many people disagree with what is consider to be pornography in society today. Susan Brownmiller is a feminist activist who wrote an essay “ Lets Put Pornography Back in the Closet” argues that pornography should be not be protect by the 1st Amendment or be allowed into society. Meanwhile, Susan Jacoby a writer of “ A First Amendment Junkie” disagrees with Brownmiller because she believes

In the article Let’s Put Pornography Back in the Closet, the writer tries to identify and define what pornography and obscenity is. According to the text, feminists believe that pornography is anything that aims to cause harm to the image of what it means to be a woman. It also includes any source that depicts the female body being harmed in any way to please the viewer’s sexual fantasies. Brownmiller adds to the feminist definition by stating that when any person is being degraded or humiliated

We can assume that most things can be separated into right or wrong, black or white but in truth, where are we to determine an actual line when the fields can overlap even in the slightest? In the case of the border between Pornography and Art, at a surface and mundane level, we are able to distinguish one extreme from the other immediately. In this essay I intend to analyse each point of the spectrum from art to erotic art to pornography. The research question I am going to be exploring is “What

Capino begins his article by claiming that the “proliferation of hard-core [porn]” in the 1970s "intensified the production of sexual fantasies and sexualities through [ . . . ] cinema.” He goes on to cite a “famous series” of blow jobs given by Linda Lovelace, drawing a relationship between cinema and how talk of girls “with no gag reflex” became the prominent in college dorms, through what he calls “rehearsing offscreen.” He goes onto state that “porn movies [ . . . ] consist of much than just

The documentary “Hot girls wanted” is all about showing the world about the reality of the porn industry and specifically, teen porn. There are many things that the average porn watcher does not know about the industry. These directors are here to tell us the truth about what happens behind the scenes. It is a very simple process that is used to bring these girls to where the directors want them to be. All that is required is something that grabs their attention. An example of this is an Internet

Art versus Pornography       Her head rests on her left knee, with her hands clasped on her ankle.  Locks of hair are thrown about in an auburn blaze.  Her tight rosy lips are as red as her cheeks.  Her dark-blue eyes reveal a half-seductive, half-submissive look.  Her legs are in a subdued spread-eagle formation, leaving her crotch area quite visible.  Her white panties leave little to the imagination. The sexual overtones are more than just a coincidence.       Suspend your imagination

American Porn Pornography, also known as porn, has been around as early as 30,000 years ago back when Paleolithic people were carving large-breasted, thick-thighed figurines of pregnant women out of stone and wood. Back in the mid-1600s erotic novels were in print and jumping through the years porn has evolved through movies and now the internet. (Pappas, 2010) In 2002 Michael Kirk and Peter J. Boyer wrote and produced a film called “American Porn” by Frontline on PBS. This film takes a long hard

The majority of modern pornography is not art, and by using a selective definition of Leo Tolstoy’s version of art, and John Dewey’s theory of art as experience, we can determine that pornography is nothing more than shallow entertainment that exacerbates social inequalities of society’s gender roles. Despite this, pornography has the potential to become art, and should therefore not be censored. It is important to define pornography, as well as Tolstoy and Dewey’s definitions of art, in order to