... seductively applying their trade with high-tech visual images. Pornography slithers its way into several different magazines and books. The three most well known pornographic magazines are Playboy, Hustler, and Penthouse. Of these three, Playboy employs the approach in which centerfolds are portrayed as the girl next door. So readers are deceived into believing that everybody is using pornography. For this reason ... , Playboy may be more harmful than hard-core pornography, especially to the young. Playboy then uses articles about famous people to legitimize the pornography inside the ma...

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... definition in Microsoft Bookshelf Encyclopedia, which I feel is a good definition for pornographic movies. The pornographic industry has many different ways of selling sexual explicit contents. For example, magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse, X-rated movies, and erotic books containing more details of sexual contents than it ever had before. The porn industry is popular amongst young women who feel they can ... ...

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... good examples of soft-core pornography. These movies often show nudity and sexual situations. However, these shows never show the act of intercourse explicitly (Media and Gender Monitor). Magazines like Playboy and Penthouse are not exactly true pornography because there is no sex involved at all. Magazines, like these, are characterized as exotica (McElroy). Even though hard-core pornography is harder ... ...

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