Pornography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pornography Pornography Etymology The word derives from the Greek πορνογραφία (pornographia), which derives from the Greek words πόρνη (pornē, "prostitute" and pornea, "prostitution"), and γράφω (graphō, "I write or record," derived meaning "illustration," cf. "graph"), and the suffix -ία (-ia, meaning "state of," "property of," or "place of"), thus meaning "a written description or illustration of prostitutes or prostitution." Pornographic magazines offered for sale Pornography or porn is the depiction of explicit sexual subject matter for the purpose of sexually exciting the viewer. Pornography makes no claim to artistic merit, unlike erotica which does. Over the past few decades, an immense industry for the production and consumption of pornography has grown, with the increasing use of the VCR, the DVD, and the Internet, as well as the emergence of social attitudes more tolerant of sexual portrayals. Performers in pornography are referred to as pornographic actors (or actresses), or the more commonly known title "porn star" and are generally seen as qualitatively different from their mainstream counterparts. Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from printed literature, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video, or video game. However, when sexual acts are performed for a live audience, by definition it is not pornography, as the term applies to the depiction of the act, rather than the act itself. Thus, portrayals such as sex shows and striptease are not classified as pornography. In most countries pornography is considered and treated differently, both culturally and legally, from depictions of nudity in art or photography. History Oil lamp artifact depicting coitus more ferarum For more details on this topic, see History of erotic depictions. The depiction of sexual acts is as old as civilization (and can be found painted on various ancient buildings), but the concept of pornography as understood today did not exist until the Victorian era. Previous to that time, though some sex acts were regulated or stipulated in laws, looking at objects or images 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia depicting them was not. In some cases, specific books, engravings or image collections were censored or outlawed, but the trend to compose laws that restricted viewing of sexually explicit things in general was a Victorian construct. When large scale excavations of Pompeii were undertaken in the 1860s, much of the erotic art of the Romans came to light, shocking the Victorians who saw themselves as the intellectual heirs of the Roman Empire. They did not know what to do with the frank depictions of sexuality, and endeavored to hide them away from everyone but upper class scholars. The moveable objects were locked away in the Secret Museum in Naples, Italy and what could not be removed was covered and cordoned off as to not corrupt the sensibilities of women, children and the working class. Soon after, the world’s first law criminalizing pornography was enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1857 in the Obscene Publications Act. The Victorian attitude that pornography was for a select few can be seen in the wording of the Hicklin test stemming from a court case in 1868 where it asks, "whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences." Despite the fact of their suppression, depictions of erotic imagery were common throughout history.[1] Pornography • Voyeur pornography (e.g. hidden camera pornography, "upskirt" pornography) Economics Revenues of the adult industry in the United States have been difficult to determine. In 1970, a Federal study estimated that the total retail value of all the hard-core porn in the United States was no more than $10 million.[2] In 1998, Forrester Research published a report on the online "adult content" industry estimating $750 million to $1 billion in annual revenue. As an unsourced aside, the Forrester study speculated on an industry-wide aggregate figure of $8-10 billion, which was repeated out of context in many news stories,[3] after being published in Eric Schlosser’s book on the American underground economy.[4] Studies in 2001 put the total (including video, pay-per-view, Internet and magazines) between $2.6 billion and $3.9 billion.[5] A significant amount of pornographic video is shot in the San Fernando Valley, which has been a pioneering region for producing adult films since the 1970s, and has since become home for various models, actors/actresses, production companies, and other assorted businesses involved in the production and distribution of pornography. The porn industry has been considered influential in deciding format wars in media; including being a factor in the VHS vs. Betamax format war (the videotape format war)[6][7] and in the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format war (the high-def format war).[6][7][8] Sub-genres In general, softcore refers to pornography that does not depict penetration (usually genitals are not shown right on camera), and hardcore refers to pornography that depicts penetration explicitly. Pornography is of different forms depending on physical characteristics of the participants, fetish, sexual orientation etc. Reality and voyeur pornography, animated videos, legally prohibited acts also depicted. Some popular genres of pornography: • Alt porn • Amateur pornography • Fetish pornography • Orientation-based pornography (gay pornography; lesbian pornography; bisexual pornography) • Orgy pornography • Race-oriented pornography (e.g. Asian, black, Latino, interracial) • Reality pornography Non-commercial pornography As well as the porn industry, there is a large amount of non-commercial pornography. This should be distinguished from commercial pornography falsely marketed as featuring "amateurs." The Alt Sex Stories Text Repository focuses on prose stories collected from Usenet. Various Usenet groups are focused on non-commercial pornographic photographs. Technology Mass-distributed pornography is as old as the printing press. Almost as soon as photography was invented, it was being used to 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia produce pornographic images. Some claim that pornography has been a driving force in the development of technologies from the printing press, through photography (still and motion), to video, satellite TV, DVD, and the Internet. With the invention of tiny cameras and wireless equipments voyeur pornography is gaining ground. Mobile cameras are used to capture pornographic photos or videos, and forwarded as MMS. Pornography of arrests and convictions in any developed nation in the world.[10] Legal status Sex and the law Social Issues Rights · Ethics Pornography · Censorship Miscegenation (interracial relations) Same-sex marriage · Homophobia Red-light district Age of consent · Essentialism Objectification · Antisexualism Violence · Slavery Public morality · Norms Specific Offences May vary according to Jurisdiction Computer-generated images and manipulations Digital manipulation requires the use of source photographs, but some pornography is produced without human actors at all. The idea of completely computer-generated pornography was conceived very early as one of the most obvious areas of application for computer graphics and 3D rendering. Until the late 1990s, digitally manipulated pornography could not be produced cost-effectively. In the early 2000s, it became a growing segment, as the modelling and animation software matured and the rendering capabilities of computers improved. As of 2004, computer-generated pornography depicting situations involving children and sex with fictional characters, such as Lara Croft, is already produced on a limited scale. The October 2004 issue of Playboy featured topless pictures of the title character from the BloodRayne video game.[9] Adultery · Incest Sexting Deviant sexual intercourse Sodomy · Buggery Zoosexuality Circumcision · Female Genital Cutting Sexual harassment · Public indecency Extreme pornography · Child pornography Sexual assault · Rape · Statutory rape Sexual Abuse (Child) Prostitution and Pimping Child grooming · Prostitution of children Portals: Sexuality · Law · Criminal justice Production and distribution by region The production and distribution of pornography are economic activities of some importance. The exact size of the economy of pornography and the influence that it has in political circles are matters of controversy. Pornography in Japan: Rates of pornography use in Japan have climbed in the 20th century. A negative correlation has been found between pornography use, rape and other sex crimes. From 1972 when pornography changed from totally prohibited to freely available with no age restrictions there has been a significant drop in sex crime and particularly in the number of victims aged under 13. Japan has the lowest levels of reported rape and the highest levels See List of pornography laws by region for detailed list The legal status of pornography varies widely from country to country. Most countries allow at least some form of pornography. In some countries, softcore pornography is considered tame enough to be sold in general stores or to be shown on TV. Hardcore pornography, on the other hand, is usually regulated. The production and sale, and to a slightly lesser degree the possession, of child 3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia pornography is illegal in almost all countries, and most countries have restrictions on pornography involving violence or animals. Pornography enforcement officials have been unable to find any such works. The Internet has also caused problems with the enforcement of age limits regarding performers and subjects. In most countries, males and females under the age of 18 are not allowed to appear in porn films, but in several European countries the age limit is 16, and in Denmark it is legal for women as young as 16 to appear topless in mainstream newspapers and magazines. This material often ends up on the Internet and can be viewed by people in countries where it constitutes child pornography, creating challenges for lawmakers wishing to restrict access to such material. Some people, including pornography producer Larry Flynt and the writer Salman Rushdie,[11] have argued that pornography is vital to freedom and that a free and civilized society should be judged by its willingness to accept pornography. The UK Government has criminalised possession of what it terms "extreme pornography" following the highly publicised murder of Jane Longhurst. Pornographic entertainment on display in a sex shop window. There is usually a minimum age to go into pornographic stores. Most countries attempt to restrict minors’ access to hardcore materials, limiting availability to adult bookstores, mail-order, via television channels that parents can restrict, among other means. There is usually an age minimum for entrance to pornographic stores, or the materials are displayed partly covered or not displayed at all. More generally, disseminating pornography to a minor is often illegal. Many of these efforts have been rendered practically irrelevant by widely available Internet pornography. In the United States, a person receiving unwanted commercial mail he or she deems pornographic (or otherwise offensive) may obtain a Prohibitory Order, either against all mail from a particular sender, or against all sexually explicit mail, by applying to the United States Postal Service. There are recurring urban legends of snuff movies, in which murders are filmed for pornographic purposes. Despite extensive work to ascertain the truth of these rumors, law Anti-pornography movement A French caricature on "the great epidemic of pornography." 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Opposition to pornography comes generally, though not exclusively, from several sources: law, religion and feminism. Some critics from the latter two camps have expressed belief in the existence of "pornography addiction." Pornography In 1967, Denmark decriminalized pornography with few adverse effects, and the following year, the United States Supreme Court held that people could view whatever they wished in the privacy of their own homes. These two developments contributed in part to Congress creating the President’s Commission on Obscenity and Pornography in 1968 to investigate the effects of obscenity and pornography on the people of the United States. Each member of the Commission was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. In what became the most detailed and comprehensive investigation into pornography to date, the Commission in its final report found that pornography could not be shown to do harm to individuals or to society, and recommended the repeal of obscenity and pornography legislation as it related to adults. Released during the presidency of Richard Nixon the report generated a brief bout of controversy but was ultimately ignored by the administration. Attorney General for Ronald Reagan, Edwin Meese, also courted controversy when he appointed the "Meese Commission" to investigate pornography in the United States; their report, released in July 1986, was highly critical of pornography and itself became a target of widespread criticism. That year, Meese Commission officials contacted convenience store chains and succeeded in demanding that widespread men’s magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse be removed from shelves,[14]a ban which spread nationally[15] until being quashed with a First Amendment admonishment against prior restraint by the D.C. Federal Court in Meese v. Playboy (639 F.Supp. 581). In the United States in 2005, Attorney General Gonzales made obscenity and pornography a top prosecutorial priority of the Department of Justice.[16] The conservative religious organization Concerned Women for America polled every U.S. attorney’s office to find out what they planned to do about obscenity. Except for a handful of offices that didn’t return calls, not one said it had any inclination to pursue anything other than child obscenity cases.[17] U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., sponsored a grant in 2005 to Morality in Media to set up the website obscenitycrimes.org that would allow citizens to report obscene websites and materials. The site has generated tens of thousands of tips and complaints, and the Effect on sexual aggression Research concerning the effects of pornography is inconclusive. Some studies support the contention that the viewing of pornographic material may increase rates of sexual crimes, while others have shown no effects, or a decrease in the rates of such crimes. Moreover, all these studies focus on various correlations, but correlation does not imply causation. Feminist objections Feminist critics of pornography, such as Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, generally consider it demeaning to women. They believe that most pornography eroticizes the domination, humiliation, and coercion of women, reinforces sexual and cultural attitudes that are complicit in rape and sexual harassment, and contributes to the malecentered objectification of women. Some feminists distinguish between pornography and erotica, which they say does not have the same negative effects of pornography. However, many Third-wave feminists and postmodern feminists disagree with this critique of porn, claiming that appearing in or using pornography can be explained as each individual woman’s choice, and is not guided by socialization in a capitalist patriarchy. Pornography by and for women Some recent pornography has been produced under the rubric of "by and for women." According to Tristan Taormino, "Feminist porn both responds to dominant images with alternative ones and creates its own iconography."[12] Legal objections In the United States, distribution of "obscene" materials is a federal crime.[13] The determination of what is obscene is up to a jury in a trial, which must apply the Miller test; however, due to the prominence of pornography in most communities most pornographic materials are not considered obscene by the Miller Test. 5 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia organization has sent promising ones on to the Department of Justice, but the department has not followed up on a single one. Pornography Paragraph 2354 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: Pornography... offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each another. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants... since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. In addition to expressing concerns about sexual immorality, some people take an antipornography stance claiming that viewing pornography can be addictive, leading to selfdestructive behavior. Proponents of this view compare pornography addiction to alcoholism, both in asserting the seriousness of the problem and in developing treatment methods. Religious objections Some religious groups often discourage their members from viewing or reading pornography, and support legislation restricting its publication. These positions derive from broader religious views about sexuality. In some religious traditions, for example, sexual intercourse is limited to the express function of procreation. Thus, sexual pleasure or sexoriented entertainment, as well as lack of modesty, are considered to be sexual immorality by some. Other religions do not find sexual pleasure immoral, but see sex as a sacred, godly, highly-pleasurable activity. These traditions do not condemn sexual pleasure in and of itself, but they impose limitations on the circumstances under which sexual pleasure should be properly experienced. Pornography in this view is seen as the secularization of something sacred, and so, a violation of spouses’ intimate relationship. Though the Torah (Jewish written law; the Bible) has a great many prohibitions regarding sexual behaviors, pornography is not specifically mentioned. However, traditional Jewish laws of modesty (tzniut) require Jewish women to be modestly dressed (thereby forbidding pornographic modeling or pornographic acting for women). The halakhah states that sexually arousing images are to be avoided. [18] The Qur’an 24:31 states "And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and keep covered their private parts, and that they should not show-off their beauty except what is apparent, and let them cast their shawls over their cleavage. And let them not show off their beauty except to their husbands... "[19] There is no simple direct prohibition of pornographic media in the Bible. Extrapolation and generalization of Matthew 5:27,28 is required. You have heard that it was said, ’Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. See also • • • Adult theater • Carnography • Cartoon Pornography • Erotic art • Erotica • Women’s erotica • Glamour photography • Internet pornography • Non-nude pornography • Pornographic film • • • List of authors of erotic works • List of gay pornographic magazines • List of men’s magazines • List of porn stars • List of pornographic book publishers • • • Antipornography movement • Pornographic actor • Pro-sex feminism • Sex worker • • • Adult documentary • Copine scale • Lust • Pornography addiction • Pornography by region • Secret Museum, Naples • Sex in advertising • Censorship 6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • List of pornographic movie studios • List of pornographic magazines • List of pornographic sub-genres • List of pornography laws by region Pornography • "A Feminist Overview of Pornography, Ending in a Defense Thereof"[24] • "A Feminist Defense of Pornography"[25] Annalee Newitz. "Obscene Feminists: Why Women Are Leading the Battle Against Censorship" San Francisco Bay Guardian Online May 8, 2002. May 9, 2002[26] Nadine Strossen: • "Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex and the Fight for Women’s Rights" (ISBN 0-8147-8149-7) • "Nadine Strossen: Pornography Must Be Tolerated"[27] Scott Tucker. "Gender, Fucking, and Utopia: An Essay in Response to John Stoltenberg’s Refusing to Be a Man"[28] in Social Text 27 (1991): 3-34. Critique of Stoltenberg and Dworkin’s positions on pornography and power. Carole Vance, Editor. "Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality." Boston: Routledge, 1984. Collection of papers from 1982 conference; visible and divisive split between anti-pornography activists and lesbian S&M theorists. • • Further reading Advocacy • Susie Bright. "Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World and Susie Bright’s Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex World Reader", San Francisco, CA: Cleis Press, 1990 and 1992. Challenges any easy equation between feminism and anti-pornography positions. • Betty Dodson. "Feminism and Free speech: Pornography." Feminists for Free Expression 1993. May 8, 2002[20] • Kate Ellis. Caught Looking: Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship. New York: Caught Looking Incorporated, 1986. • Susan Griffin. Pornography and Silence: Culture’s Revenge Against Nature. New York: Harper, 1981. • Matthew Gever. "Pornography Helps Women, Society"[21], UCLA Bruin, 1998-12-03. • Jason Russell. "The Canadian Past-Time" "Stand Like A Rock" • Michele Gregory. "Pro-Sex Feminism: Redefining Pornography (or, a study in alliteration: the pro pornography position paper)[22] • Andrea Juno and V. Vale. Angry Women, Re/Search # 12. San Francisco, CA: Re/ Search Publications, 1991. Performance artists and literary theorists who challenge Dworkin and MacKinnon’s claim to speak on behalf of all women. • Michael Kimmel. "Men Confront Pornography". New York: Meridian-Random House, 1990. A variety of essays that try to assess ways that pornography may take advantage of men. • Wendy McElroy defends the availability of pornography, and condemns feminist antipornography campaigns.[23] • • Porn studies • Linda Williams: Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible (University of California Press, 1989). Expanded Paperback Edition: Univ of California Press, 1999, ISBN 0520219430 • Linda Williams (ed.): Porn Studies, B&T, 2004, ISBN 0822333120 References [1] Beck, Marianna (May 2003). "The Roots of Western Pornography: Victorian Obsessions and Fin-de-Siècle Predilections". Libido, The Journal of Sex and Sensibility. http://www.libidomag.com/nakedbrunch/ archive/europorn07.html. Retrieved on 2006-08-22. [2] President’s Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. Report of The Commission on Obscenity and Pornography 1970, Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office. [3] Richard, Emmanuelle (2002-05-23). "The Naked Untruth" (in English). Alternet. 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International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 22 (1): 1–22. doi:10.1016/ S0160-2527(98)00035-1. http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/ online_artcls/pornography/ prngrphy_rape_jp.html. Retrieved on 2006-08-26. [11] Baxter, Sarah; Brooks, Richard (2004-08-08). "Porn is vital to freedom, says Rushdie". Times Online. Times Newspapers. Archived from the original on 2007-11-08. http://www.webcitation.org/5TD5Q8UAz. Retrieved on 2007-11-08. "Pornography exists everywhere, of course, but when it comes into societies in which it’s difficult for young men and women to get together and do what young men and women often like doing, it satisfies a more general need.... While doing so, it sometimes becomes a kind of standardbearer for freedom, even civilisation." [12] "Political Smut Makers by Tristan Taormino". http://www.villagevoice.com/ people/0624,taormino,73480,24.html. Retrieved on 2006-08-26. [13] "U.S. Code: Title 18, 1462. Importation or transportation of obscene matters". Cornell University Law School. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/ uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001462---000-.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-27. [14] "Politics and Pornography". http://home.earthlink.net/~durangodave/ html/writing/Censorship.htm. Retrieved on 2006-08-26. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] 8 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [15] "The Rev. Donald E. Wildmon". http://www.mediacoalition.org/reports/ wildmon.html. Retrieved on 2006-08-26. [16] Kay, Julie (2005-08-30). "U.S. Attorney’s Porn Fight Gets Bad Reviews". Daily Business Review. ALM Properties. Archived from the original on 2005-10-25. http://web.archive.org/web/ 20051025081709/http://www.law.com/ jsp/article.jsp?id=1125318960389. Retrieved on 2007-11-08. "The agents were stunned to learn that a top prosecutorial priority of [interim U.S. Attorney Alex] Acosta and the Department of Justice was none of the above. Instead, Acosta told them, it’s obscenity. Not pornography involving children, but pornographic material featuring consenting adults. ... Acosta replied that this was Attorney General Gonzales’ mandate." [17] Krause, Jason (2008-02-01). "The End of the Net Porn Wars". ABA Journal. American Bar Association. http://abajournal.com/magazine/ the_end_of_the_net_porn_wars/. Retrieved on 2008-07-08. [18] Tzniut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [19] http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Quran/ 24?oldid=506079 [20] Feminism and Free speech: Pornography [21] Pornography Helps Women, Society [22] Pro-Sex Feminism: Redefining Pornography [23] You Are What You Read? [24] A Feminist Overview of Pornography, Ending in a Defense Thereof [25] A Feminist Defense of Pornography [26] Obscene Feminists: Why Women Are Leading the Battle Against Censorship [27] Nadine Strossen: Pornography Must Be Tolerated Pornography [28] Gender, Fucking, and Utopia: An Essay in Response to John Stoltenberg’s Refusing to Be a Man External links Commentary • "The Impact of Pornography on Men" by Antonella Gambotto-Burke • American Porn Interactive web site companion to a Frontline documentary exploring the pornography industry within the United States. • Rushdie Turns India’s Air Blue Discussion of the debate over pornography within Indian society. • "Who wants to live in a Porn Nation?" Discussion of pornography on college campuses Government • Kutchinsky, Berl, Professor of Criminology: The first law that legalized pornography (Denmark) • Oppenheimer, Mark, Video of submission to South African parliament on virtual child pornography, Part 1 at YouTube, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 History • xyclopedia: the history of pornography and sexual expression Sociology • Beck, Marianna Ph.D., "The Roots of Western Pornography," part 2, history of pornography in the West. • Diamond, M. and Uchiyama, A. (1999), Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 22(1): 1-22. • Pornography and Censorship in: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography" Categories: Pornography, Erotica, Sex laws, Sexology This page was last modified on 21 May 2009, at 07:54 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) 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