Just how common is sexual harassment in educational settings? A survey of California high schools found that approximately 50% of the female respondents reported experiencing sexual harassment (Roscoe et al., 1994). Another survey of over 1,000 Canadian adolescent females in grades 7 through 12 found that more than 23% had experienced at least one event […]
Месяц: Ноябрь 2015
SEX AND THE CIGARETTE
‘Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.’ Lynda Barry MASS SEX APPEAL The association of smoking and sex was fired up by Hollywood and the advertising world, with stars like Bogart and Bacall apparently inviting the smoker to share their exotic lifestyles. Ad campaigns in the 19th century had used risque pictures of scantily […]
What the Public Thinks About Pornography
It is not only scholars and activists who disagree about pornography; the general public seems profoundly ambivalent about it as well. The majority want to ban violent pornography and feel that such pornography can lead to a loss of respect for women, acts of violence, and rape. Female erotica and soft-core pornography are generally not […]
The twenty-first century
Unfortunately as far as ‘seduction’ is concerned the twenty-first century has begun as a time of confusion and there is no immediate sign of improvement. Now male reluctance to show emotions has been overcome, the ‘new’ post-feminist woman turns out to have had enough of cotton wool. Men must again, as they have traditionally done, […]
Online Pornography
The online pornography industry is quickly growing and was worth approximately $1 billion in 2003 (Griffiths, 2003). Many of the online buying features available through websites today (such as real-time credit card processing) were developed by the pornography industry (Griffiths, 2003). This is not surprising, because research has found that 69% of U. S. Internet […]
What Is Harm?
Lahey (1991) argues that the attempt to determine the effects of viewing pornography misses the point because once again the focus is on men and their reactions; is it not enough that women feel belittled, humiliated, and degraded? The voice of women is silent in pornography studies. The questions focus on whether pornography induces sexual […]
Individual Studies
Several laboratory studies have sought to determine the reactions of men exposed to different types of pornography. In most cases, men are shown pornography, and then a test is done to determine whether their attitudes toward women, sex crimes, and the like are ReviewQuestion Describe the studies that have been done examining pornography and harm. […]
Rape Scripts
Another reason for the existence of unacknowledged rape victims may be the nature of the rape scripts some women possess. A script describes the events that normally occur in a given situation (Markus & Zajonc, 1985). Fiske and Taylor (1991) summarized the evidence that people in a given culture have common scripts for a wide […]
Acknowledgments
S ex research is a little like sex in that most people who engage in it are more comfortable without an audience. The researchers who invited me into their labs did so at the peril of their funding, their privacy, their academic standing, their sanity. For saying “yes” when “no” was the sensible answer, I […]
Personalities, Attitudes, and Past Experiences
Do acknowledged and unacknowledged victims have different personalities, attitudes, or background experiences that lead them to label their rape experiences differently? In an extensive investigation of this possibility, Koss (1985) found no differences between acknowledged and unacknowledged rape victims in dating behaviors, situational aspects of the rape experience, personality, or attitudes about rape. Levine-MacCombie and […]