Pornography
For over a century there has been great debate about the role of pornography in American society. Despite years of social crusades and legal and political wrangling, America remains in the...
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Pornography
Major sources of information about sex include media such as magazines, videos, television, and movies. Some, but by no means all, of these sources are what most people think of as "por...
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Pornography
Most societies have some kinds of sexually explicit words, images, and other materials that are disapproved, prohibited, illegal, or restricted in circulation; that are portrayed in a mann...
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In the following excerpt, Hyde discusses nineteenth-century pornography devoted to sado-masochistic practices, homosexuality, and incest.
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Apart from purely erotic pornography, there are various...
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In the following excerpt, McCalman explores the production of pornography, some of it associated with radical politics, centered on Holywell Street in London.
The authorities caught up with George ...
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In the following excerpt, Pease traces the relationship between increasing levels of literacy in Victorian England and the production and regulation of pornography.
Edmund Gosse characterized the B...
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In the following excerpt, Milech addresses the changing definition of pornography in relation to literature in the nineteenth century.
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In 1867 Paul Verlaine gathered together into a small book en...
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In the following essay, Mayer discusses the problematic nature of writing on female passion in the nineteenth century and the assessment of erotic literature by or for women as pornographic.
Wild N...
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In the following essay, Herbert connects the emergence of pornography as a nineteenth-century genre with the emergence of a new definition of manhood.
In “The Invention of Pornography”...
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In the following essay, Stivale discusses Maupassant's role in the construction of nineteenth-century masculine identity through an examination of his pornographic play, À la feuille de ...
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In the following essay, Haworth discusses censorship and self-censorship surrounding the poetry of the Romantics, claiming that the Romantic poets and their critics anticipated the puritanical sensibi...
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Pornography as defined is a creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire. The viewing of pornography or porn for short i...
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Many people have many ideas and opinions on different things in society. One of these things that come up frequently is a person's opinion on pornography whether it is good or bad for society. My opin...
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Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, who rails against the "cesspool" of pornography, is being criticized by social conservatives who argue that he should have tried to halt hardcore hote...
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The Supreme Court explored Tuesday whether it could limit the reach of a child pornography law so that it would not apply to legitimate creative expression, vivid adolescent imaginations or innocen...
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Sydney (dpa) - Queensland police Tuesday took a 4-year-old child
away from her allegedly abusive grandfather and arrested eight other
suspected paedophiles in a trans-contin...
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THE HAGUE, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Police have dismantled a global
child pornography network that produced 'tailor-made' videos for
some 2,500 customers in 19 countries, European officials said on
Monda...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Acting on a tip-off from the United Kingdom, Thai
police have arrested a British national suspected of posting child
pornography on the internet, police sour...
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Seoul (dpa) - Declaring war on "obscene material," the South
Korean government announced measures Monday to block access to
foreign pornography in the internet.
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The Hague (dpa) - The European criminal authorities Europol and
Eurojust have discovered a case of large-scale trade in child
pornography, investigators in The Hague said on...
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Riga (dpa) - Latvian authorities launched a criminal investigation
into the distribution of child pornography on billboards advertising
a new opera about Pinocchio, Latvian ...
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Critical Essay by H. Montgomery Hyde
Effects on Pornography on Youth
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