1) Introduction:
1.1 Research Background
Pornography is one of the largest businesses within the sexual industry, which has recently emerged as a new debate topic across different fields such as the academia and the legislation discussion. Previous research (e.g. Cooper, 1998; O’ Reilly, Knox and Zusman, 2007; Hald and Malamuth, 2008; Doran and Price, 2014) had overwhelmingly focused on the impacts of pornography consumption. For instances, Hald and Malamuth (2008)’s study on young Danish men and women disclosed the means in which pornography have effects on them personally, whereas Doran and Price (2014)’s research on the relationship between pornographic consumption and marital well-being found that pornography consumption is negatively …show more content…
The term ‘pornography’ was derived from the Greek word ‘pornographs’, which means the scripting or drawing about prostitutes (Dworkin, 1981). Nevertheless, most of the literature on this topic acknowledged the issues of defining pornography, since research studies have employed dissimilar types and definitions of pornography. According to D’Orlando (2011), the major issue with defining pornography is strongly connected with the influences of ‘individuals’ cultural, moral and religious beliefs’ (D’Orlando, 2011: 53). For the purposes of this present dissertation, Rea (2001)’s definition of pornography is sufficiently suitable. According to Rea, pornography is a material that intends to generate sexual excitement or has an impact of generating sexual stimulation (Rea, 2001), regardless of gender. Therefore, pornography is best to recognise here as the depiction of non-emulated sexual acts with the major intention of sexually arousing the …show more content…
According United States Census Bureau (2006)’s statistics on pornography consumption, China was listed as obtaining the highest revenue in pornography consumption worldwide, with approximately more than $27 billion, followed by South Korea with approximately more than $25 billion revenues was next, and Japan, with approximately more than $19 billion revenues was listed on the top three (Ropelato, 2014). Although previous statistics reflected a high amount of revenues was generated from the Asian countries, particularly in China, studies on pornography consumption in Asian contexts are relatively under-researched. Hence, one of the purposes of this dissertation is to bridge the gap between western contexts and Asians contexts on pornography consumption. Given that there is a lack of research on pornography consumption in Chinese contexts, rationales for conducting a research targeting on Chinese adolescents’ opinions on pornography consumption are offered. Firstly, Chinese people constitute the largest population worldwide. Secondly, my cultural background (raising up in Macau and studying and living in the United Kingdom) have facilitated and influenced the interest on examining the consumption of pornography in a more multicultural dimension. Lastly, it is
1.1 Research Background
Pornography is one of the largest businesses within the sexual industry, which has recently emerged as a new debate topic across different fields such as the academia and the legislation discussion. Previous research (e.g. Cooper, 1998; O’ Reilly, Knox and Zusman, 2007; Hald and Malamuth, 2008; Doran and Price, 2014) had overwhelmingly focused on the impacts of pornography consumption. For instances, Hald and Malamuth (2008)’s study on young Danish men and women disclosed the means in which pornography have effects on them personally, whereas Doran and Price (2014)’s research on the relationship between pornographic consumption and marital well-being found that pornography consumption is negatively …show more content…
The term ‘pornography’ was derived from the Greek word ‘pornographs’, which means the scripting or drawing about prostitutes (Dworkin, 1981). Nevertheless, most of the literature on this topic acknowledged the issues of defining pornography, since research studies have employed dissimilar types and definitions of pornography. According to D’Orlando (2011), the major issue with defining pornography is strongly connected with the influences of ‘individuals’ cultural, moral and religious beliefs’ (D’Orlando, 2011: 53). For the purposes of this present dissertation, Rea (2001)’s definition of pornography is sufficiently suitable. According to Rea, pornography is a material that intends to generate sexual excitement or has an impact of generating sexual stimulation (Rea, 2001), regardless of gender. Therefore, pornography is best to recognise here as the depiction of non-emulated sexual acts with the major intention of sexually arousing the …show more content…
According United States Census Bureau (2006)’s statistics on pornography consumption, China was listed as obtaining the highest revenue in pornography consumption worldwide, with approximately more than $27 billion, followed by South Korea with approximately more than $25 billion revenues was next, and Japan, with approximately more than $19 billion revenues was listed on the top three (Ropelato, 2014). Although previous statistics reflected a high amount of revenues was generated from the Asian countries, particularly in China, studies on pornography consumption in Asian contexts are relatively under-researched. Hence, one of the purposes of this dissertation is to bridge the gap between western contexts and Asians contexts on pornography consumption. Given that there is a lack of research on pornography consumption in Chinese contexts, rationales for conducting a research targeting on Chinese adolescents’ opinions on pornography consumption are offered. Firstly, Chinese people constitute the largest population worldwide. Secondly, my cultural background (raising up in Macau and studying and living in the United Kingdom) have facilitated and influenced the interest on examining the consumption of pornography in a more multicultural dimension. Lastly, it is