... I continue. The American Heritage Desk Dictionary defines pornography as written or pictorial matter intended to arouse sexual feelings. This definition gives an erotic, innocent explanation to pornography. Diana E. H. Russell defines pornography as material that combines sex and/or the exposure of genitals with abuse or degradation in a manner that appears to endorse, condone, or encourage such behavior. (Violence Against ... 21) In order for rape to occur, a man must not only be predisposed to rape, but his internal and social inhibitions against acting out this rape desires must be un...

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... risky for them to interact with children. But the computer is a double-edged sword. Law enforcement agents have found that many pedophiles are compulsive personalities with predictable behavioral patterns (Russell, 2000). Some will keep records of their collections and victims. They often write detailed logs of their experiences and "sexual conquests." Police are well aware of these habits and ... in these types of cases will quickly obtain a search warrant to seize any computer owned by a suspected child molester (Russell, 2000). Police have also discovered many dues paying organization...

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... to the boys. It is very rare to find a woman being prosecuted after sexually engaging in sexual intercourse with a minor boy. According to (Russell 507), the statutory rape laws does not hold similar penalty for both sexes. Russell further asserts that the statutory laws only favour females while are discriminatory to the boys. His claim rests on his assumption that very few ... in the background of this research, all the parties could have been held responsible. This implies that charging the boy alone was itself discriminatory. This assumption is guided by the Russell assertion that s...

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... she could exchange sexual favors in exchange for things she wanted. She would exchange sex for pocket change and cigarettes, earning her the nicknames of "Cigarette Pig"" and "Cigarette Bandit" " (Russell, 2002, para. 17). After having sex with a number of neighborhood boys, Aileen became pregnant at the age of fourteen. Nearly six months pregnant, Aileen claims that she had been raped ... assault, breaking and entering, driving without a license, forgery, unlawful possession of a firearm, and car theft. Arresting officers were quoted describing Aileen, "Attitude poor. She thinks she is...

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... female predators until recently (Cortoni, Hanson, & Marle-Eve Coache, 2010). For instance, in 1984 a study that was conducted by Finkelhor & Russell concluded that about 5% of female children and 20% of male children exposed to sexual predation were abused by women (Finkelhor & Russell, 1984). More recent research among victims show that female predation is significantly higher than back in the 1980s (Cortoni, et ... ...

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... girls and one in five boys will be sexually assaulted by the time they are 16 years old [John N. Briere, Child Abuse Trauma (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992); Diana E. Russell, The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986)],5, i [though] fewer than 10 percent of child sexual abuse cases are reported to ... ...

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... "(36).If adults in position of power act this way, these youngsters cannot expect other adults to act any differently.Therefore they accept this type of behavior as normal. Diana Russell claims that tactics like these are being used more often in advertising and television, which has led the media watchdogs and anti-porn activists to believe that this sort of ... ...

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... is defined to include the depiction of actual sexual contact ("hard-core") and depiction of mere nudity or lubricous exhibition ("soft-core"). One notable feminist, scholar and author, Dr. Diana Russell, defines erotica to be, "material that combines sex and/or the exposure of genitals with abuse or degradation in a manner that appears to endorse, condone, or encourage such behavior". By ... ...

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