Anti-pornography movement

One in 16 have been exposed to hardcore pornography. - One in 12 have exchanged messages with sexual content to other people, while one in 25 have sent graphic photos of themselves. - 25% of children get away with pretending to be older to get an account online. - 5% children admitted arranging a…

Some people believe that people have the right to choose different information, such as pornography. For instance, in the American Constitution, it states that opinions and judgements should be freely expressed. It means that people have the freedom to decide what kinds of information they want to read (Volokh, 2005). However, content with pornography has occupied a large part on the Internet, so the information would spread to more people who are not suitable age to…

Pornography The pornographic industry has a reputation of being a causal factor in the degradation of women for the satisfaction of the current patriarchal society. Feminist Helen Longino defines pornography as the “verbal or pictorial explicit representations of sexual behavior that… have as a distinguishing characteristic ‘the degrading and demeaning of the role and status of the human female as a mere sexual object to be exploited and manipulated sexually’” (106). She distinguishes…

titled Once You Have Made Pornography explaining the socially constructed stigma around porn industry workers. Lee, a writer and porn performer, aims to expose how society objectifies those in the porn industry and explain the reality of life as a sex worker. This essay is an undoubtedly thought-provoking piece, which encourages readers to reflect on pornography from the participant’s eyes. The stylistic choice…

Although book banning happens all over the world, the most common challenges occur in school libraries. Most of these battles are fought at the school board level, but on occasions, some do make it to the supreme court. In one of the most famous court cases, in 1982, the Supreme Court ruled in the Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico. The case however has been regarded as one of the most important decisions concerning the First Amendment rights and school…

Erotic vs. Pornography In order for companies to make greater profits, they use a form of marketing appeal to persuade to their audience. To grab their consumer attention they used different type of advertisement appeals. It’s clear that advertiser uses sex to sell their products. This marketing strategy has been used for centuries and doesn’t plan on slowing down any time soon. These bring us to a topic on erotic and pornography. Advertisement companies will use erotic images or pornography…

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…

Isaac Lopez Professor Liang English 1A 1 February 2016 Persuasive Research Essay The controversial topic of internet censorship has been disputed multiple times within the last few years. Internet censorship like most debatable topics, has two sides with representatives arguing for it and against it. The most recent issue debated beginning in 2014 and ending in 2015, was over Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality also referred to as “Open Internet” by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has…

Now most people believe to think that censoring the internet can allow children to access websites without fear of getting their child’s mind corrupted; which is true. Allowing censoring can prevent inappropriate topics reaching the minds of kids 17 and below. But censoring the internet can cause some meanings to be lost, or emotions that can’t be describe by some G-rated sentences, and if information can be censored; any outlet of information (For example; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,…

In February 15th, 2003, the episode of a long-running ABC TV show “NYPD Blue,” “Nude Awakening” has premiered, and became controversial, due to a scene involving nudity. Over the last few years, the terms “indecency” and “obscenity” has been defined and redefined, in order to create proper regulations on programs’ usage of mature content on television. This rule has become more prominent in primetime programs, but not in cable programs since they depend on subscriptions. Ever since cable was…