Pornography Flashcards
(6 cards)
1
Q
How do you define pornography
A
- material that is sexually explicit
- designed to produce sexual arousal in viewers
- in a transgressive way
2
Q
Mackinnon article name
A
Feminism unfolded
3
Q
Mackinnon points
A
- essential for porn to be to some degree against the rules
- obscenity laws keep pornography sexy
4
Q
Feona Attwood
A
technology replaces sexual encounters
5
Q
Brian Mcnair
A
increase accessibility and normative nature of it
6
Q
Sallie tisdale
A
- if more women involved in porn, would change the way in which women are portrayed to men though porn
- agrees with MacKinnon: always the man who decides what is obscene and forbidden
- but disagrees that pronography is necessarily violent: can be used to open men’s minds, give them ideas and teach an expanded sense of normality
- women need to improve porn
- would broaden voice of women
- broaden scope of the genre
- broaden power-base of women
- porn is good because separated from reproduction, marriage and heterosexuality
