Enrique goycoolea
Professor White
P.S 102
05/10/2013
Adult Pornography
Does the state have the right to tell me what I can and can’t look at in my own home? Can you imagine a world in which the government prosecuted you as a criminal for looking at pornography within the walls of your own home? Well to address that problem the United States regulates that behavior. Generally speaking they do not have the right to do so. With a few exceptions; if it involves children. The Supreme Court in Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 (1969), held that in a person’s home "the mere private possession of obscene matter cannot constitutionally be made a crime." The Court went on to say, “If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.” But the government does have the right to prohibit possession of certain items, such as child pornography. They also have the right to prohibit the distribution of certain items, such as child pornography, pornography, and material harmful to minors. 1. You have the right to possess hard-core pornography/obscenity for your own use in your home.2. You do not have the right to sell or show hard-core pornography to others.3. You do not have the right to possess child pornography.4. You do not have the right to show or give material to a minor that is harmful for a minor. Today I’m going to talk about adult pornography and the types of porn that are available in today’s society. More specifically I’ll tell you about one, hard-core, and two, soft-core pornography. This relates to everyone because this is a serious issue which must be openly discussed. In order to educate people about what’s going on in their environment. I’m qualified to speak on the matter because I have been trained to do so in occupation as a psychology scholar. Now let me tell you about my first point which is. Pornography refers to any written, visual, or spoken material depicting sexual activity or general 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 denigrates its subjects. Racial stereotypes in interracial pornography are one form of degradation. Violent pornography involves aggression and brutality; the violent voice might take the form of rape, beatings, dismemberment, and even murder. An especially disturbing type of violent pornography that can also be found on the net is people engaging in necrophilia or Zoophilia. Necrophilia involves obtaining sexual gratification by viewing or having intercourse with a corpse. Zoophilia involves sexual contact between humans and animals; it occurs most commonly as a transitory experience of young people whom a sexual partner is inaccessible or forbidden. Violent and abusive fantasies are common in chat rooms; titles such as “torture females” or “7 yr old daughter blows dad” can easily be found. In fact, a study comparing pornographic magazines, videos, and internet newsgroups found that newsgroups hard considerably more sexual violence than other two forms media (barrron & Kimmel, 2000). A subtype of sexually explicit materials is erotica. Erotica can be ether soft- or hard-core, but it is a distinct kind of pornography, regardless how how explicit the material is. Erotica is rooted in Eros or “passionate love” (Steinem, 1998).
