Analytical Essay Andrew Altman’s “The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, and Equality” Andrew Altman defines pornography a commodity produced and used for purposes of sexual arousal. This includes all types of pornography whether they are violent or not. However this opinion does not necessarily sit well with others. It is believed that violent pornography encourages violent sex crimes. The question is morality and if people have a moral right to produce and view.
Under these legal issues, violence is qualified as a form of hate crime. Hate crimes are bias-motivated acts where one targets another because of their real or perceived membership of a social group. The basis of this social group-sexual identity-is still a divisive issues even in the west-area of the world. In today’s age, the act of homosexuality has been legalized in almost all countries; violence against LGBT has been regarded to as a hate crime. It is claimed to have been connected with either religious or some political ideologies, which tend to be against, strongly condemn homosexuality, and associate it with weakness, morally ill, and feminine.
Also, we need to consider cultural relativity, which means that certain actions may be accepted in some cultures but not all, like Western cultures are different to Eastern. For deviation from social norms, there is always the chance of social norms changing between cultures and over time, this means that people’s conceptions of abnormality will also change as both those factors affect how humans see the world. For example, in 1973, homosexuality was regarded as a sexual illness but nowadays, it is not as discriminated against, even if some people consider it wrong, the vast majority accept it. Also, the classification of abnormality can only be based on the context in which the behaviour occurs, as in the difference between changing in a bathroom and changing in the classroom.
The first and obvious reason is that the book takes place in a pro-communist setting. The book may have been trying to prove a point, but it was still enough to offend many. The book is also sexually explicit, so it is easy to see why parents may want to “protect” their children from the idea of sex and that it should not be thought of in the way George Orwell writes about it. The most interesting reason for the ban of 1984 was the fact that it reminded people of what is like in the United States today. It has made people uncomfortable to think that what is being described in this chilling novel reminds them of what they see outside their own windows, with the fact that humans are constantly on watch and there is practically no way to keep anything hidden.
Do you prosecute that as a hate-crime, just because it might be? One group of people is now getting special treatment under the law. That sounds lot like discrimination to me, which isn't how this country is supposed to work. Whatever happened to equal protection under the law? Further, because most hate-crime legislation puts added effort into prosecuting crimes against certain individuals or groups, what about the same crimes committed against someone who doesn't fit into one of those groups?
These large well-made maps are most easily compared to the work of Mercator and Anders Bureus. These maps generally define what large scale maps should be to the majority of the worlds populace. They are almost unusable for the purposes of Grantville. The Atlas's of Goodes and McNally are equally of little use for the common use of the people of Grantville or its leaders. Equally important is the equipment that has been brought back with them.
These stories are reflections of the roles social pressure plays in today's culture. George Orwell and John Updike both explain how social pressure affects individuals and their choices in varying positions of authority. In today’s culture more individuals suffers from obesity and are bullied whether knowingly or not. As a culture, American individuals grow more insensitive to one’s emotional capacity. As more derogatory terms are used when describing another being, social choice is inevitable.
Deviant behaviors are those behaviors that society considers to be bad, evil, sinful, criminal, insane, or even rude. Deviance is likely to produce some social efforts to punish and or control the deviant individual (sanctions). Deviance can be divided into categories along sexual lines which is to say that there are norms, social codes, standards, and moral codes for sexual behavior. Violation of the norms, social codes, standards and moral codes set up for heterosexuals are said to consist of “heterosexual deviant behaviors” or “heterosexual deviance. Several examples of heterosexual deviance include: teen sex, extramarital sex, pornography, cybersex, sexual harassment, and prostitution.
Different cultures “judge” pornography in different ways in different periods of time. There are a various lines around what is acceptable and what is obscene among various culture based on morality. For instance, nowadays nudity in public is tended to be acceptable in Western culture but still unacceptable in both Far and Middle East Asia. If the news above public in Eastern it is obvious to be immoral. It is not going to be an argument about it is art or not.
Many people outside of the industry believe it affects teen’s sexual activities and violence tendencies. A recent study in the American Academy of Pediatrics suggested that the display of sex on television can contribute to preadolescent sex. Rebecca Collins et al Ahmed 2 argued in their article that sex in entertainment can lead to teens having sex. She argues that when teens start to become sexually curious, the programming on television showing sexual content influences their idea about sex, specifically in regard to gender stereotype. The amount of sexual content on television is huge.