JMC 1100 1st Edition Lecture 23 Media Uses and Effects Porn Again Erotica and Society Media Today Twitter and the 1st Amendment o Site will block offensive tweets from people directly Time to Trip o Snorricam used to convey drunkenness drug use and insanity in movies Last Time Sexual content in the media o Sex expectations o Gender roles Today The influence of Erotica and Porn in Society Concerns about the amount of Porn in Society Theories to Consider The Brighter Side of Erotica Porn is such and Ugly Word History People love Porn o 35 000 BC early humans use eoric statues as fertility gods goddesses o Ancient Greeks and Romans paint sex acts on public sculptures and frescos o 200 Kama Sutra Erotica Creates Literacy 1594 Italians Pietro Aretino and Giulio Romano create I Modi aka The 16 Pleasures o Aretino writes sonnets Romano draws pictures st 1 Erotic Novel become possibly only book Europeans know in 16 th Century Responsible for spread of literacy in Europe not Gutenberg Bible Erotica Speeds Tech Adoption 1839 Frenchman Louis Daguerre invents Daguerreotype precursor to modern photography o Erotic photos follow Oldest erotic photo 1846 1888 Frenchman Louis La Prince invents film camera o 1896 1st porn films produced o 1900 Stag films take off o Gypsy Rose Lee becomes star 1975 video cassette recorders invented These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute 1980 60 of video sales porn o helped VCR defeated Betamax o could help Blu Ray defeat HD DVDS Without it we wouldn t have o Secure web based credit card payment system o Content streaming o Live chat o Broadband distribution o No Porn No Amazon or Netflix What it is Porn vs Obscenity Obscenity o 1973 Miller vs California Obscenity Test Content and images must meet three criteria to be considered obscene Violate contemporary community standards Patently offensive Lacking serious artistic literary political or scientific value Pornography is protected under the First Amendment as free speech Obscenity is NOT protected Birth of Internet digital Gomorrah 1993 internet officially launched 1995 80 of internet traffic porn 1999 Web s Most Lucrative Industry o Many Porn Stars become Mainstream Stars Porn in the U S A Today 4 2 million porn websites o 30 of all internet traffic porn 68 million daily As of 2013 porn generated 12 billion revenue 90 billion world wide Porn s influence on Society Sexual script theory what we watch becomes our expectations for normal sex Study Modern college students more likely to list common porn themes and acts ex spanking slapping etc when asked about sexual desires o Focus on media influence not shame or guilt Porn use can resemble other addictions o Heavy users seek provocative images for arousal such as barely legal and hard core sex o Also frequent users more likely cheat on partners Negatives of Porn Number of youth involved in porn is growing 21 8 of adult film covers featured youth sexualized imagery most of girls Searches for Teen porn have more than tripled between 2005 and 2013 Child porn is a 3 billion dollar industry annually o Could buy Lakers Cubs and Solomon Islands More Concerns Pornography is becoming more and more violent Physical aggression in Porn o Before 2000 14 28 of scenes violent o Today 88 of scenes in top rated films Sexual Violence in Pornography Lasted study charged 3 376 acts of violence o 2 971 female victims o 154 male victims Causal Effects of Porn No causal link between viewing porn and committing rape However after watching porn an increasing number of men admitted they would commit a rape if they think they could get away with it Youth who view X rated material 6x more likely to force someone to do something sexual online or in person Other effects of Porn Also there is al ink between viewing porn and attitudes about violence against women o The more viewers watch porn erotic or violent the more accepting they are of violence against women Effects of Porn Men were shown a rape victim s testimony and asked to serve as jurors o Those who had just viewed porn were less likely to believe she had been raped Encouraging a Rape Myth Culture More accepting to believe that women want and asked for it Conflicting Theories Trigger Hypothesis o Watching rape makes people want to rape o Facts 87 of men watch Porn o But less than 4 of men commit sexual assault but the few do it a lot Safety Valve Theory o Watching porn is enough to satisfy sexual urges Sometimes Effects Defy Logic Not just porn and rape media presented sexual relationships are usually intense Leads scientists to illogical conclusions o Female rape fantasies almost 60 of women have them o New study NOT about rape about Desire What we DO know Theory of Excitation Transfer o Sexual arousal intensifies any emotional experience makes it more prominent o Happy Happier sad sadder angry angrier More exposure to sexual material more thoughts about set