Women & ***********

• *********** comes from the greek word 'porne' meaning writing about whores
• Whores were the cheapest women that were available to all men
• Modern *********** has existed for about 150 years
• *********** is something that shows indecent/explicit acts which are intended to cause arousal
• Obviously problems with the definition of ***********
• What is arousing for one is not for another
• Also *********** can be deeply offensive to some, but not to others
• *********** is also context specific; sex education within schools is not pornographic even though it shows explicit scientific images

ITZIN (1992)

• There is no legislation against ***********
• Rather the law has surrounded maintaining public order and decency in society 
• The law therefore aims to restrict production, distribution and display or 'indecent/obscene' materials
• The law is essentially a mess
• There is no solid definition of *********** so how can the law operate?
• Definitions include notions of corruption
• What is corruptive is subject to the jury on that day
• The Obscene Publications Act is therefore difficult to enforce

• Radical Feminists - believe *********** encourages sexual violence towards women and reinforces male domination over women
• Liberalists - believe ****ogrpahy is sexually explicit material designed for public arousal
• No harm comes from ****
• But as it can cause offence there should be restrictions on the display of ***********
• Moral Right - *********** is a threat to traditional family values
• This position was popular during the 1980s and the panic surrounding AIDS
• Feminists - though patriarchal, we are in danger of supressing women's exploration of their sexuality
• We should look at how women are represented as a whole in society if we want patriarchal beliefs to disappear from society