Pornography, Vol. 5
Does pornography have harmful effects on individuals? What are these effects and how should society deal with them? The authors of this volume attempt to answer these and other important questions by placing pornography within the broader context of theories of fundamental human nature. Their approach reveals a systematic interweaving of social science, morality and the law from three different perspectives: conservative//moralistic, liberal and feminist. The book will be an invaluable...
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Pornography has fascinated and divided researchers, policymakers, and the public for years. Does it have harmful effects on individuals? What effects in particular? Does pornography influence everyone or just some people? How should society deal with the results of this influence? In Pornography, Linz and Malamuth sort through these and other questions by placing their topic within the broader context of fundamental human nature theories. Their approach reveals a systematic interweaving of social science, morality, and law through three different perspectives: conservative-moralistic, liberal, and feminist. The fifth volume in the innovative Communication Concepts series, this book is an invaluable addition to current research on pornography and obscenity. Students and professionals in communication studies as well as research methods and the social sciences in general will find Pornography to be an illuminating and compelling study.
Foreword1Pornography Is What It Does1How Do We Know Pornography when We See It?1Pornography, Obscenity, and Erotica2Sex and Violence3Three Normative Theories4Assumptions About Human Nature, Society, and Truth6Theories of the Press in Society6Authoritarian/Conservative-Moral Theory6The Libertarian/Liberal Theory9The Social Responsibility/Feminist Theory11Pornography Research and the Three Normative Theories152Obscenity, Sexual Arousal, and Societal Decay: The Conservative-Moralist Theory and Empirical Research16Arousal, Disgust, Habituation, and Promiscuity17Exposure to Pornography and Excitatory Habituation20Beneficial Effects of Limitations on Public Displays of Sex23A Moral Climate of Laxness and the Breakdown of Society25Prolonged Exposure to Pornography, Acceptance of Nontraditional Sex, and Leniency for Rapists26Pornography Exposure and the Decay of Marriage and the Family273Erotica and Harmlessness: The Liberal Theory and Empirical Research28Evidence of Demonstrable Harms of Pornography29Contemporary Research With Social Statistics and Rapists32Research Measuring Harm in the Laboratory35Pornography May Be Socially Beneficial37Individual Differences in Tolerance for Restrictions39Research on More or Corrective Speech424Pornography and Harms to Women: The Feminist Theory and Empirical Research44The Sexualization of Subordination and Violence46Sexual Arousal to Rape46Changes in Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Rape Victims48Laboratory Studies on Aggressive Behavior Against Women48Pornography and Discrimination Against Women50A Cultural Climate of Aggression Against Women51The Combination of Sexually Explicit Media With Other Variables53The Effects of Pornography on Female Viewers545The Contributions of Each Approach to Scientific Research and Social Policy56Unique Contributions of Each Approach57Overlap Among the Approaches59Returning the Concepts to Their Origins59References63Index71About the Authors75
