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Chapter 18 Flashcards

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Categories of Pornography

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  1. Degrading
  2. Violent
  3. Hard-Core
  4. Soft-Core
  5. Erotica
  6. Specialty
  7. Straight Versus Gay
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Pornography Extended

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  • Dates back to cave drawings
  • Media advances have exploded the industry
  • Attempts to control pornography distribution (prohibited books, Comstock act)
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Pornography

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Sexually explicit material intended to cause sexual arousal

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Erotica

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Respectful, affectionate depictions of sexuality

  • Made in 70’s
  • Both hard and soft core
  • Identifies as passionate love
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Variations in Gender Porn Films

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  • Straight porn is based on close-up views of various positions of intercourse, oral, and anal sex
  • Threesomes, two women, and group sex are also in this category
  • Most gay porn is from well-groomed, muscular, good-looking men
  • Also large men with body hair goes in this category
  • Lesbian porn is realistic and more of reality involving sex toys, costuming, and talking
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Specialty Pornography

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  • Large variety of human imagination in porn
  • It is whatever fits that personality or what turns them on
  • This can be orgies, interracial sex, or even pregnancy sex
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Child Pornography

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  • Not covered by first amendment
  • Illegal under many state and federal laws even if the person is pretending to be under 18
  • Internet regulation
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Pornography and Freedom of Speech

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  • 1970 Commission on obscenity and pornography recommended repeal of all adult pornography laws
  • 1986 Meese Commission recommended vigorous prosecution of obscenity
  • Regulating the dissemination of pornography:
    Private possession is not a crime
    Dissemination is regulated
    Cyberspace cannot be controlled
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Obscenity

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Personal or societal judgement that something is offensive

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Pornography: Effects of Relationships

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  • Stresses male penile performance
  • Perpetuates gender role stereotypes
  • Greater dissatisfaction with partner’s appearance and performance
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Supreme Court Criteria

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  • Appeals to prurient interest in sex
  • Patently offensive to contemporary community standards
  • Without serious literary, artistic, political, scientific value
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Prostitution

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Exchange of sexual services for money

  • Long history; tolerated, even valued
  • Internet changing the market
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Sex Worker

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Person involved in prostitution and activities such as phone sex, nude dancing, erotic message, Internet sex, and acting in porn movies

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Brothel

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House in which a group of prostitutes work

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Prostitution Clients

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  • Usually middle-aged, white males
  • No intimacy or commitment
  • Techniques they would not use with regular partner
  • No risk of rejection
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Why Choose Prostitution as a Career

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  • Economic
  • Combination of psychological, social, and environmental factors
  • Exploitation
  • Diverse Backgrounds
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Prostitution and the Law

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Illegal:
- Reduces number of prostitutes
- Easier to enforce restrictions
- Regulates public morality
Legal:
- Effective restriction is difficult
- Encourages health maintenance
- Hampers Rehabilitation
- Discrimination in enforcement
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Prostitution and HIV

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  • Nevada brothels require monthly testing and use of condoms

- Lower society omit status prostitutes, male prostitutes, and IV drug abuse have higher risk

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Teenage Prostitution

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  • Dysfunctional families cause runaway teenagers
  • 95% have been sexually abused
  • Poor school history, low self-esteem
  • Seeking adult attention and affection
  • Serious risks; HIV or STD’s
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Female Prostitutes

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  • Streetwalkers
  • Brothel or massage parlor workers
  • Call girls and escorts and kept women
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Male Prostitutes

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  • Heterosexual services (gigolos)
  • Homosexual services
  • Street hustlers, call boys, and kept boys
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Economics of Prostitution

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  • Pimps live off their earnings
  • Criminal justice businesses profit
  • Referral agents get tips from prostitutes
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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  • Abstinence or condom
  • Chlamydia: most common bacterial
  • Herpes: simplex type 1 and 2 (soar diseases) 1 is oral, and 2 is genital
  • Candidiasis (yeast infection): most common viral
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Sexual Harrasement

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  • Unwanted sexual attention in workplace or academic setting
  • Prohibited by 1964 Civil Rights Act in Title 7 and two types:
    1. Quid Pro Quo; you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours
    2. Hostile or offensive environment (hostile is like not talking to them, offensive is making your environment harmful to others

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