Megan Delawder Pornography Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility January 19th 2014 Instructor John Meeks Over the years there have been many arguments and debates over the morality of pornography. I believe it is important to identify the definition of pornography. This essay will define pornography as sexually explicit materials, such as pictures or videos, which downgrade women. Utilitarianism believes pornography would have to bring out more happiness than the absence of pornography for it to be moral. With that being said, pornography could be moral if it brought out happiness after viewing pornographic material.
Pornography Is Harmful To Women and Children Let it be known that the purpose of this paper is to argue that pornography is harmful to society, but more specifically women and children. Unlike any other media representation of sex and sexuality, pornography within our postmodern society has become a cultural category of significance. The typical seediness has somewhat become lost but replaced by a society that mainly focuses sexual imagery in almost everything everyone sees. High contents of sexual imagery is used in the advertising and music industries as well as a number of late night television shows. This sudden shift in people’s attitudes towards the use of certain sexual and erotic images in today’s society raises a number of questions that need to be answered in order to better understand the harms it does to society.
There are many instruments used to perpetuate male power (particularly rich, white, male power). Among the instruments used to perpetuate male dominance is male violence against females or the “privilege” of men to oppress women (Hooks 50). Among the feminist interests of U.S. ideology is termination of this violence. Living within a male-dominated system that suppresses women; can one rationalize women using murder as a counter to assault? The story of Aileen Wuornos was of specific interest to the feminist movement.
The author argues, against those who would delegitimate such usage as persuasive redefinition, that what are at stake are different theories of the nature of rape. “Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape.” Hypatia 9, no. 2 (1994): 134-51. The authors criticize the following views: only the rapist is accountable since only he commit the act; no one is liable since assault is a biological response to stimuli; everyone is guilty since men and women contribute to the sexual assault culture; and patriarchy is reliable but no person or group. In closing, this source to end the project with even thought it disagreement pieces of information that can be argue.
Lithwick:Teens, Nude Photos and the Law In this article, published in Newsweek, the author explains the harsh possible outcomes from teenagers sending at the own free will nude photos of themselves to their mates or lovers. Something that the author defines as “sexting” epidemic and analyses how the law is treating offenders and victims. The author makes an obvious claim that the criminal-justice system is too harsh to solve any issues that deal with teens and technology because this issue is becoming more common and although he doesn’t examine different or alternative ways to solve the problem, personally I agree with him that the law should not interfere with such juvenile cases because being exposed to others instead of the person it was intended for is punishment enough. In the article, the author brings personal stories which highlight three
Critics recognized the relevance of Bradbury’s work then, and still do today. Clearly, reading in print and on the Internet are different. On paper, text has a predetermined beginning, middle and end, where readers focus for a sustained period on one author’s vision. On the Internet, readers skate through cyberspace at will and, in effect, compose their own beginnings, middles and ends. Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of a futuristic world in which books are banned and burned, TV is everyone’s drug of choice, and independent thinking is basically illegal.
Ethical issues such as naming rape victims are at the discretion of the publisher. People who are raped fear their name will be mentioned on the news and thus fail to report the crime. This is why most newspapers and news stations do not name rape victims. “Someone who is sexually assaulted becomes the victim three times: initially during the actual assault, second during the interrogation, and lastly when their name is published by the press. Society often judges rape victims to be as guilty as the rapist” (Pember 280).
They wait to seize opportunities to attack or wait to it is convenient for them to attack and rape. Were Coercive sex offenders are typically child molesters and rapists the worse of each. This type of offender doesn’t care about age or gender and is just an all-around sexual predator. The worst because they don’t care who they hurt and some have no conscience of what they are doing or self-control. No matter what they are they all need to be watched and put in jail before or after they commit the act of molestation or
English 151 Feb 12th 2015 Summary In “A First Amendment Junkie” By Susan Jacoby, Jacoby writes an article about pornography saying how she does not have a problem with adult pornography in general, but she does have a problem with it when it involves censorship. Jacoby writes this article in regards to a Porno called “Deep Throat” produced by Larry Flynt. To begin, Jacoby states that Larry Flynt produces garbage, but at the same time she also feels that he being convicted was unfair, due to the fact that he was revoked of his freedom of speech. She then goes against feminists who believe that it is okay to censor pornography, saying that it will help anti feminists censor discussions of issues in the women’s movement. After making this point, Susan Jacoby then begins to move onto the topic of child pornography, saying that child pornography is not a first amendment issue, but an issue of child abuse.
Geoffrey Horsfield Prof. Geoff Arnold English 103 11 May 2011 Everything Comes at Price, is Pornography Worth it? Have you ever experienced an unwanted advertisement containing illicit material or images? We live in a day and age where information is at our fingertips. T.V.’s and computers dominate homes across the world, the news is covered on multiple channels, and anything you need to find can be instantly accessed on the Internet. Across the vast digital world that is the Internet, children and adults can access any type of content they want with ease.