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Pornography Debates

What are the perspectives on porn? Does porn cause violence against women? Is porn objectifying and degrading to women? Where’s the line between pornography and prostitution? How lucrative is the porn industry?. Pornography Debates. What are the perspectives on porn?.

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Pornography Debates

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  1. What are the perspectives on porn? • Does porn cause violence against women? • Is porn objectifying and degrading to women? • Where’s the line between pornography and prostitution? • How lucrative is the porn industry? Pornography Debates

  2. What are the perspectives on porn? Porn is empowering (women are taking charge of their own sexuality) Porn is degrading (women are being used and abused for men’s pleasure)

  3. How could porn be empowering?! Women are openly enjoying sex and controlling their careers. They are entertainers and dominate the adult industry. They decide what they want to do and when they want to do it and make good money in the process. They feel strong and sexy during the process.

  4. Is porn objectifying and degrading to women? • Objectifying? Sure. Porn turns people into sex objects. Degrading? That depends on how you look at it. • Is objectification a problem? Professional athletes are objectified, as are models and actors.

  5. Both the conservatives (largely religious), as well as many feminists, see porn as fundamentally exploitative, degrading, and just plain wrong. Conservatives and feminists on the same side of the porn debate?

  6. Does porn cause violence against women? Let’s look to your reading, “The Pornography Debates: Beyond Cause and Effect” by Karen Boyle for some insight . . .

  7. Where’s the line between pornographyand prostitution? • Prostitution = customer pays a person for providing sexual services (trading of sex acts for money). It’s “real” sex.

  8. Pornography = customer pays to watch other people have sex (porn is filmed/photographed sexual acts that are for the edification of others – not the ones being filmed). It’s “pretend” sex.

  9. Line between porn and prostitution? If somebody is getting paid to have sex, is it always prostitution? Where does the First Amendment right to Free Speech come into play?

  10. How lucrative is the porn industry? It’s unclear exactly, but most estimates put it in the billions. Clearly, there is a demand for porn. Why is that?

  11. How does porn influence gender roles? • Porn has been shown to cause men to be less satisfied with their partners. • Porn is a constructed and unrealistic portray of “real” sex

  12. How has porn become mainstream? • Porn has influenced mainstream advertising and behaviors • Mainstream media has images that reference porn

  13. BDSM has become more mainstream primarily due to porn BDSM = Bondage Domination Sadism Masochism (often called “kink”) – references to BDSM have become much more common

  14. So why does porn matter? Being bombarded with pornographic images teaches both men and women that there is basically one way to be “sexy”

  15. There’s no way neither men nor women can live up to the constructed “ideal” images portrayed in porn.

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