Graphic sexual images have become so ubiquitous that many university literature, film, anthropology, law, and women’s studies departments offer "porn curriculum" courses that delve into pornography issues (Cullen, 2006). The mainstreaming of aspects of pornography and sex work into U. S. culture is so prevalent that author Ariel Levy has described today’s culture as "raunch […]
Месяц: Ноябрь 2015
(Re)conceptualising the male subject in family law
Recent empirical and theoretical scholarship concerned with exploring the gendered discourses of family law has sought, in a number of ways, to explore the masculine subjects of family law. Whether it be in relation to studies of divorce law and practice, contact law reform, marriage, parenthood or men’s relation to employment, for example, it is […]
Types of Male Prostitution
Male prostitutes, like females, may engage in street hustling, bar hustling, and escort prostitution (Luckenbill, 1984). The differences between these types of prostitution are in income potential and personal safety. Street and Bar Hustlers Male street and bar hustlers solicit clients on the street or in parks that are known for the availability of the […]
The Personal Rewards Are Gratifying
Many areas of your life can improve when you make a lifelong commitment to stay away from porn. Hank told us, “For thirty years, from the time I began using porn compulsively until I hit bottom with it in my mid-forties, I was completely unsatisfied, undeveloped, and unhappy as a human being. Since I quit […]
The Marriage of Technology and Sexually Explicit Materials
The ease of access and privacy afforded by cable television and the VCR, followed closely by the Internet and mobile wireless devices, has extended access to pornography to people who previously would not have gone to an adult movie theater or bookstore. This increase in availability may be especially true for women, who comprise one […]
Male Prostitution
/^~V7 tephen is an 18-year-old male prostitute who has been working on the streets since he was 16 or 17 years old. He identifies himself as gay and has sex primarily with male clients. [5] wait too long—up to an hour at most. When a customer comes along we work out what’s going to […]
Types of Female Prostitution
Female prostitutes can solicit their services either in the street, bars, hotels, brothels, massage parlors, as call girls or courtesans, or out of an escort agency (Perkins & Bennett, 1985). These types of prostitutes differ with respect to the work setting, prices charged, and safety from violence and arrest. Streetwalkers make up about 20% of […]
Predisposing Factors
Some common threads run through the lives of many prostitutes. The most common factor, according to researchers, is an economically deprived upbringing (Goode, 1994). However, because high-class prostitutes, who often come from wealthy backgrounds, are less likely to be caught and arrested, research studies may concentrate too much on poorer women. Early sexual contact with […]
Counterfactual Thinking
Counterfactual thinking is another cognitive process that may lead women to not acknowledge their experience as rape. As applied to rape, counterfactual thinking would involve mentally changing or reconstructing the events that culminated in rape in such a way that something other than rape occurred (Kahneman & Miller, 1986; Kahneman & Tversky, 1982). Unusual or […]
Freedom of Speech Versus Censorship
SEX & POLITiCS Pornography as Social Criticism Sex for Sale What Constitutes Obscenity? The 1957 Supreme Court decision defined obscenity in order to implement censorship. It established the following three criteria for evaluating obscenity: 1. The dominant theme of the work as a whole must appeal to prurient interest in sex. 2. The work must […]