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sex for work
- sexual services in exchange for material compensation
- pornos, prostitues, exotic dancing, phone sex
- american pay $9-14 billion a year for sexually explicit materials
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pornography
- sexually explicit material designed to elicit for arousal
- men consume more porn
- U.S produces much of world's porn
- $14billion spent yearly
- 72% of americans believe porn degrades women, and 77% say laws against pron should be more severe
- about violence domination and conquest: purpose sexual arousal
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erotica
works of art that are sexually stimulatinng but whose sole purpose is not arousal
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Categorzation of Porn
- Hard core vs. Soft
- -soft core has no penetration
- genre
- -sexual orientationg. physical characteristics, # of participants, fetishes
- media its presented in
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Types of Sexual media
- adult magazines: photos or illustrations
- hentai: sijin manga: explicit japanese comics
- movies: genre variets, $4billion rentals
- internet: online sexual activity (OSA) cypersex
- video games
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History
- around since before humans could communicate
- images in cave walls, roman ruins, kama sutra
- Gutenber;s pring press allowed for it to flourish
- 19th centure: first obscenity laws in U.S
- stanley vs. Georgia: allowed private possession of material
- most countries allow some porn and almost all have laws against child porn
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porn in the U.S
- 1842: first anti obscenity laes
- stanley vs. georgia
- miler vs. california 1873: legal definition of obscenity
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anti porn
viewed as immoral or demeaning towards women
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anti censorship
view that repressing porn is first step to censorship
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pro sexuality
view that porn has ptential benefits like increased pleasure relaxation, sex ed and info, safety
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prostitutuion
- exchange of one's body for something of value
- many different views
- media gives unrealistic views of "the life"
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incidence and prevalence of prostitution
- 1% of american women
- not present in every society
- more comming in countries of paverty, gender inequality
- religion and fear of AIDS may lower incidence
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outdoor sex workers
streetwalkers: low status prostitue
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indoor sex workers
- b-girls work in bars or hotels
- massage parlors
- brothel
- escort
- call girls: highest status; can be hired over the phone or internet
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male prostitutes
- gigolos: service females
- hustlers: solicit males clients' on streets, internet
- safe sex isnt a norm
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transgendered prostitutes
male to female sex workers occupy lowest rung of hierarchy
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pimp
finds and manages customers for prosititutes
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panderer (procurers)
find customers for streetworkers
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madams
woman who runs brothel
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sex tourism
travel for the sole purpose of sexual activity
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sex trafficking
- recruintment, harboring, transportation, or obtaining of a person for purpose of commercial sex act
- 200,00 sex slaves worldwide
- detrimental physically and psychologicaly
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prostitution and the law
- 90,000 people arrested each year in US for violations
- 90% prostitues 10% customers
- legal in some countries but illegal in most US states
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postions on prostitution
abolition, legalization, decriminalization
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phone sex
- sexually explicit conversationg that occurs between 2
- in a relationship, or commercially
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sexting
- sending explicit messages
- can be aggravated or experimental
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strip clubs
- bars/night clubs featureing erotic dance and entertainment
- two cateories: topless and all-nude
- gray area between performance and prostitution
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