Human Sexuality

• sexual services in exchange for material compensation
• pornos, prostitues, exotic dancing, phone sex
• american pay $9-14 billion a year for sexually explicit materials

• 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

works of art that are sexually stimulatinng but whose sole purpose is not arousal

• Hard core vs. Soft
• -soft core has no penetration
• genre
• -sexual orientationg. physical characteristics, # of participants, fetishes
• media its presented in

• adult magazines: photos or illustrations
• hentai: sijin manga: explicit japanese comics
• movies: genre variets, $4billion rentals
• internet: online sexual activity (OSA) cypersex
• video games

• 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

• 1842: first anti obscenity laes
• stanley vs. georgia
• miler vs. california 1873: legal definition of obscenity

viewed as immoral or demeaning towards women

view that repressing porn is first step to censorship

view that porn has ptential benefits like increased pleasure relaxation, sex ed and info, safety

• exchange of one's body for something of value
• many different views
• media gives unrealistic views of "the life"

• 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

streetwalkers: low status prostitue

• b-girls work in bars or hotels
• massage parlors
• brothel
• escort
• call girls: highest status; can be hired over the phone or internet

• gigolos: service females
• hustlers: solicit males clients' on streets, internet
• safe sex isnt a norm

male to female sex workers occupy lowest rung of hierarchy

finds and manages customers for prosititutes

find customers for streetworkers

woman who runs brothel

travel for the sole purpose of sexual activity

• recruintment, harboring, transportation, or obtaining of a person for purpose of commercial sex act
• 200,00 sex slaves worldwide
• detrimental physically and psychologicaly

• 90,000 people arrested each year in US for violations
• 90% prostitues 10% customers
• legal in some countries but illegal in most US states

abolition, legalization, decriminalization

• sexually explicit conversationg that occurs between 2
• in a relationship, or commercially

• sending explicit messages
• can be aggravated or experimental

• bars/night clubs featureing erotic dance and entertainment
• two cateories: topless and all-nude
• gray area between performance and prostitution