Месяц: Ноябрь 2015

Historical Overview

Pictorial and written representations of sexuality are not modern inventions; even prehistoric cave drawings depict sexual activity. The ancient Indian love manual Kama Sutra, dating from about 400 CE, summarized philosophies of sexuality and spirituality in its descriptions of specific sexual techniques. Ancient Greek and Roman societies extensively used sexual themes to decorate housewares and […]

Child Pornography

Child pornography is excluded from the First Amendment protection of free speech. The production, sale, and distribution of sexual images of children under the age of 18 are illegal under numerous federal and state laws. Even offering to provide or request­ing to obtain child pornography carries a mandatory 5-year prison sentence (Sherman, 2008) . Federal […]

To Each His or Her Own

Straight, gay, and lesbian porn are broad categories that do not begin to include the enormous variety of sexually explicit topics. Specialty pornography "is a mighty testa­ment to the infinite variety of human imagination" (Hanus, 2006b, p. 59). It caters to the wide range of interests in bondage and discipline; sadomasochism fetishes; trans­gender, pregnant, old/mature, […]

Re-turning to narcissism?

In her work of 1997, The Psychic Life of Power, Judith Butler foregrounds the figure of the ‘turn’ as the key to understanding the ‘becoming’ of the reflexive subject (30). In contrast to sociological framings of reflexivity (Chapter 4), Butler’s presentation helps us to think further about the conceptual difficulties inherent in what we recognised […]

Erotica

A subtype of sexually explicit materials is erotica. Erotica can be either soft — or hard­core, but it is a distinct kind of pornography, regardless of how explicit the material is. The word erotica is rooted in eros, or "passionate love" (Steinem, 1998). Erotica consists of "depictions of sexuality which display mutuality, respect, affection, and […]

Pornography

The term pornography refers to any written, visual, or spoken material depicting sex­ual activity or genital exposure that is intended to be sexually arousing. Pornography is usually considered hard-core when explicit images of genitals are shown, whereas soft-core stops short of revealing genitals. We can separate pornography into two addi­tional categories. Degrading pornography objectifies and […]

Female Prostitution in Australia

ee is a 37-year-old prostitute in Sydney, Australia. She also raises a family at home. Here she talks about her life of prostitution. [4] Clients ask for a range of different sexual activities. It can range from good old-fashioned straight-out sex to swinging from the chandeliers. Apart from bondage and discipline there are some weird […]

‘Deflecting the gaze?’ Textual analysis and the critical study of the ‘family man’ in law

Deflection of the objectifying gaze from women and Indigenous people to bench­mark masculinity and heterosexuality, as well as ‘whiteness’, represents an attempt to disrupt the conventional orderings of modernity within legal texts.[1029] It was in an attempt to explore the above concerns that a range of studies developed in family law during the 1990s concerned […]