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SDV 7 - Exam 3 material begins

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Sexual Deviance Violence (SOC 3370)

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Adult Pornography: ● Gross sales of porn media range between $10 and $14 billion annually ○ More than revenues of ABC, NBC, AND CBS combined ○ More than NFL, NBA, AND MLB combined ○ More than Hollywood box office sales ● More than 200 pornographic videos produced each week. This does not include amateur porn made by individuals outside the formalized industry ● 35% of internet downloads are pornographic ○ Pay-per-view is highest source of porn; next is the internet ● About ⅓ of children have been exposed to unwanted pornographic material by the time they are the age of 12 ● Pornography versus erotica ○ Pornography: humiliation, degradation, etc. ○ Erotica: can be really graphic, sexually explicit, include images, etc. ■ Consent is crucial to erotica

● Qualities of Pornography (from Bridges and Jensen) ○ Andrea Dworkin (1988) identified 4 elements of pornography (nudity is not necessary) ■ 1. Objectification: human is being turned into a thing or commodity ● Ex. prostitution - people selling their bodies ■ 2. Hierarchy: one group on top (men), another group on the bottom (women) ■ 3. Submission: acts of obedience/compliance are necessary for survival - oppressed learn to anticipate desires of those in power and their compliance is used to justify dominance by those in power ■ 4. Violence: can be unremarkable and normative - explicit or implicit - verbal or physical Just a John? Pornography and Men’s Choices by Robert Jensen ● Jensen equates those who consume pornography with “johns” since johns purchase another human being for sex. ● 3 consistent themes in (Heteronormative) mainstream pornography ○ 1. All women want sex from all men at all times ■ Masculinization of sex ○ Women naturally desire the kind of sex that men want, including sex that many women find degrading ■ Ex. ejaculating in their face, anal sex followed by oral sex, fisting, double penetration ○ Any women who does not at first realize this, can be turned on with a little force ● “When you create a sex-class that can be bought and sold, the people in that group - in this instance women (but also children) - will inevitably be treated as lesser, as available to be controlled and abused.”

Choices, His and Hers, by Robert Jensen

● While depictions of sex in art have been around since recorded history, the magnitude of its availability is vastly different, as is the content. ● 2 technological advances led to an explosion in the availability of pornography; (1) videocassettes and recorders, and (2) the internet. ● Many argue that since women choose to perform, there can be no critique or argument about pornography. ● 2 girls and a cup

● Standard argument has 3 assertions and 1 assumption ○ Assertions: ■ 1. The women in pornography choose it. ■ 2. They get paid a lot. ■ 3. Those who don’t get paid a lot still have it easy because they are being paid for just getting fcked, which is easy, and besides... ○ Assumption: ■ That’s what women are for, to get fcked ● Discussion of choice make the assumption that we all have free choice. ● However, most situations involve constrained or subjective choice ● Subjective choice involves one’s perception of their choices and outcomes as well as the objective options involved ○ Childhood sexual abuse ○ Economic conditions and educational training ○ Lack of meaningful employment options ○ PTSD, low self-esteem ● Empathy requires we form connections with other people. Pornography is about detaching from this connection. ● “Dynamite” excerpt (pg 90) blowbang 4 ● What does this say about what we find entertaining? ● Why do we find this sexually arousing?

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SDV 7 - Exam 3 material begins

Course: Sexual Deviance Violence (SOC 3370)

10 Documents
Students shared 10 documents in this course

University: Appalachian State University

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Adult Pornography:
● Gross sales of porn media range between $10 and $14 billion annually
○ More than revenues of ABC, NBC, AND CBS combined
○ More than NFL, NBA, AND MLB combined
○ More than Hollywood box office sales
● More than 200 pornographic videos produced each week. This does not include amateur
porn made by individuals outside the formalized industry
● 35% of internet downloads are pornographic
○ Pay-per-view is highest source of porn; next is the internet
● About ⅓ of children have been exposed to unwanted pornographic material by the time
they are the age of 12
● Pornography versus erotica
○ Pornography: humiliation, degradation, etc.
○ Erotica: can be really graphic, sexually explicit, include images, etc.
■ Consent is crucial to erotica
● Qualities of Pornography (from Bridges and Jensen)
○ Andrea Dworkin (1988) identified 4 elements of pornography (nudity is not
necessary)
■ 1. Objectification: human is being turned into a thing or commodity
● Ex. prostitution - people selling their bodies
■ 2. Hierarchy: one group on top (men), another group on the bottom
(women)
■ 3. Submission: acts of obedience/compliance are necessary for survival
- oppressed learn to anticipate desires of those in power and their
compliance is used to justify dominance by those in power
■ 4. Violence: can be unremarkable and normative - explicit or implicit -
verbal or physical
Just a John? Pornography and Men’s Choices by Robert Jensen
● Jensen equates those who consume pornography with “johns” since johns purchase
another human being for sex.
● 3 consistent themes in (Heteronormative) mainstream pornography
○ 1. All women want sex from all men at all times
■ Masculinization of sex
○ Women naturally desire the kind of sex that men want, including sex that many
women find degrading
■ Ex. ejaculating in their face, anal sex followed by oral sex, fisting, double
penetration
○ Any women who does not at first realize this, can be turned on with a little force
● “When you create a sex-class that can be bought and sold, the people in that group - in
this instance women (but also children) - will inevitably be treated as lesser, as available
to be controlled and abused.”
Choices, His and Hers, by Robert Jensen

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