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Sexually Oriented Material
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Erotica w Sexually oriented material that can be evaluated positively.
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Pornography w Sexually oriented material that is generally evaluated negatively w Pornography is legal in the US
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Obscenity w Implies a personal or societal judgment that something is offensive. w Violence w aggression w degrading w dehumanizing
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Sexually oriented material w Such as: photographs videos films magazines books
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Hardcore w Intimate depictions of sexual activities. w The vulva w the erect penis w the anus
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Softcore w This material is not explicit nude photographs such as those in Playboy
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Sexually oriented material w Magazines w books w live adult entertainment (Strip bars) w video/DVD w cable TV w Movie houses XXX
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Femme porn w Sexually oriented material catering to women and heterosexual couples avoids violence is less male-centered more sensitive to women’s erotic fantasies
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Accepted by society? w Music w Beauty pageants (Miss America) w TV shows w Talk Shows w Radio Programs (Howard Stern) w Comedy
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Effects? w Does it cause.. Violence against women deviant acts or typical behavior fantasy safer sex
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A source of information? w Reported by college students to provide information about sexual acts like oral sex
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Response w Men tend to respond more positively than women do. w Men believe more often that sexually explicit material has positive effects lowering inhibitions sexual release
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Discrimination w Some believe it is: degrading and dehumanizing to women. turns women into sex objects inhibits women’s rights by encouraging exploitation and subordination of women. w Others believe discrimination and the subordination of women existed prior to sexually explicit material...
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Child Pornography w Children between the age of 8 and 16 are the most common victims causing: distress poor adjustment depression anxiety guilt destructive and antisocial behaviors
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Censorship w Is to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable. w Both political and moral values are imposed on others by: Governments private groups individuals
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Obscenity and the law w 1.) The dominant theme of the work must appeal to prurient sexual interest and portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way. w 2) Taken as a whole, the work must be without serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. w 3) A “reasonable” person must find the work, when taken as a whole, to possess no social value.
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Jacobelis v. Ohio (1965) w “But I know it when I see it.” Justice Potter Stewart
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WWW. w The internet w Search sex
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Prostitution w The exchange of sexual acts for money, drugs or other considerations is called prostitution. sexual intercourse fellatio anal intercourse discipline and bondage obscene insults
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Sex workers w Many women do not consider themselves prostitutes even if they accept money or drugs for sex. w Prostitution is work not sex w pimps
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Prostitution w Child sexual abuse w physical abuse w neglect w disadvantaged background w Drug and alcohol use
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Forms of female prostitution w Streetwalkers w Brothels w Masseuses w Call girls
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Male prostitution w Street hustlers w call boys w masseurs w gay bars w Chickens and chickenhawks
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Prostitution and the Law w Not effective in ending prostitution w most often the women not the man is arrested w solicitation: a word, gesture, or action that implies and offer of sex for sale.
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HIV/AIDS and prostitution w Many are IV drug users w Multiple sex partners
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