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Pornography And Women

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             The social and psychological components of sexual conduct are not included in pornography: flirtation, courtship, refusal, seduction, and even undressing the person. The men are portrayed are potent people with the women always being willing regardless if the circumstances created. The women portrayed are living up to "masculine fantasies of the sexually assertive, instantly aroused, uninhibited woman who climaxes as easily as aroused" (Faust 25). By creating these false images the complex experience of sex has been reduced to stereotyped roles portrayed by actors.
             Specifically the role of violence in pornography is important to recognize. With the technology of the Internet and readily access to various websites containing pornographic material the possibilities for violence towards women in pornography is extremely higher than magazines or videos. A research done by Barron and Kimmel (2000) investigated the measures of violent content in pornography in magazines, videos, and Usenet found that Usenet contained the most graphic content. The results of this report shows that both videos and magazines portrayed sexual acts as consensual while the majority of Usenet pornography portrays in as nonconsensual. It is concluded that the changing levels of violence in the Usenet is a result of then men's effort to prove their stereotypical image of masculinity. The report assesses that the changes in violent content has to do with the "definition of homonic masculinity"(Barron and Kimmel 167).
             This competition between producers of pornography on Usenet is the backdrop for more violent acts towards women because of the freedom from market restraints. These sites are created to fulfill any fantasy of men with anonymity in accessing these sites. This allows men to divulge on their fantasies online thus creating desensitization towards the objectification of women. .
             By creating a false sense of arousal by men to women the person seeing these images can be desensitized to delicate issues such as rape and violence towards women (Lindsey 239).


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