1. In Nina Hartley’s article, Porn: An Effective Vehicle for Sexual Role Modeling and Education, Hartley argues that porn as a form of entertainment can be educational and serve to teach safe sex. More specific, she describes the way porn is seen as menacing to the general population mentally, morally, and physically. Hartley’s response to this claim is essentially that porn is the only form of entertainment where sexual pleasure is shown without any restrictions, which ultimately shows an honest representation of a personal act that is usually kept behind closed doors. Nina Hartley is essentially explaining why porn should be appreciated as a scientific, artistic form of education.
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Porn, like any other form of entertainment, delivers some form of education but it can have some shallow messages that reflect our society’s fear of sexuality. Therefore, Nina Hartley as a sex worker tries to make porn fun and healthy rather than dismiss it as another form of entertainment, she understands that porn is there to ignite conversation and to expand our definition of pleasure instead of circumscribing them. Nina Hartley also mentions how porn can liberate the cultural strains that separate men and women, this is due to the shallow messages that it can provide. Yet porn can be liberating to not just straight, cis people but anyone since porn constantly expands to show other marginalized …show more content…
Nina Hartley and Jessica Valenti both describe how a woman’s sexual pleasure is utilized as a weapon against her. Even though Hartley also mentions the social pressures that affect men, she mostly focuses on the way women’s sexual liberation is continuously debated by men, the government, and other women. This is similar to how a young girl’s virginity is central to her existence, both virginity and a woman’s sexual pleasure are to be owned and define by the public. Not to mention both Valenti and Hartley analyze how the media portray sex, in Valenti’s article she mostly focuses on media’s obsession with the virgin, while Hartley points to the many ways pornographic media can be beneficial to a woman’s sexual pleasure, which could end society’s obsession with
2. Hartley utilizes historical context to better classify …show more content…
Porn, like any other form of entertainment, delivers some form of education but it can have some shallow messages that reflect our society’s fear of sexuality. Therefore, Nina Hartley as a sex worker tries to make porn fun and healthy rather than dismiss it as another form of entertainment, she understands that porn is there to ignite conversation and to expand our definition of pleasure instead of circumscribing them. Nina Hartley also mentions how porn can liberate the cultural strains that separate men and women, this is due to the shallow messages that it can provide. Yet porn can be liberating to not just straight, cis people but anyone since porn constantly expands to show other marginalized …show more content…
Nina Hartley and Jessica Valenti both describe how a woman’s sexual pleasure is utilized as a weapon against her. Even though Hartley also mentions the social pressures that affect men, she mostly focuses on the way women’s sexual liberation is continuously debated by men, the government, and other women. This is similar to how a young girl’s virginity is central to her existence, both virginity and a woman’s sexual pleasure are to be owned and define by the public. Not to mention both Valenti and Hartley analyze how the media portray sex, in Valenti’s article she mostly focuses on media’s obsession with the virgin, while Hartley points to the many ways pornographic media can be beneficial to a woman’s sexual pleasure, which could end society’s obsession with