Pornography

Question 1

How do you define pornography

Answer 1

• material that is sexually explicit
• designed to produce sexual arousal in viewers
• in a transgressive way

Question 2

Mackinnon article name

Answer 2

Feminism unfolded

Question 3

Mackinnon points

Answer 3

• essential for porn to be to some degree against the rules

- obscenity laws keep pornography sexy

Question 4

Feona Attwood

Answer 4

technology replaces sexual encounters

Question 5

Brian Mcnair

Answer 5

increase accessibility and normative nature of it

Question 6

Sallie tisdale

Answer 6

• if more women involved in porn, would change the way in which women are portrayed to men though porn
• agrees with MacKinnon: always the man who decides what is obscene and forbidden
• but disagrees that pronography is necessarily violent: can be used to open men’s minds, give them ideas and teach an expanded sense of normality
• women need to improve porn
  
  • would broaden voice of women
  • broaden scope of the genre
  • broaden power-base of women
• porn is good because separated from reproduction, marriage and heterosexuality