The sexual arousal industry What is the arousal industry Any product human or object designed to stimulate sexual excitement This generally includes pornography visual incitement explicit vs pornographic Pornographic has been confused with obscene What is the def of obscene it appeals to a shameful and morbid interest in nudity sex or excretion without socially redeeming value lacks serious artistic literary political or explicit a naked body etc but not meant to excite you pornographic meant to turn you on Nude bodies etc scientific merit applying community standards shows sexual conduct in patently offensive ways The Supreme Court these include supreme court opinion acts of intercourse hetero or homo normal or perverted actual or simulated acts of masturbation acts involving excretory functions or lewd exhibition of the genitals bestiality or fondling of animals sexual acts of flagellation torture or sadomasochistic acts Should pornography be illegal Multi billion dollar industry between 10 14 billion annually more than annual revenue of either NFL or NBA or baseball combined Forrester research Cambridge Mass This isn t just little sex shops its major hotel chains in room movies Direct TV owned by larger corporate interests Thousands of movies released started with flip cards in 19th century Silent films now 11 000 plus in a given year Hollywood only 400 Reverse discrimination women make more than men and become stars Jenna Jamison At Vivid Can make six fig plus competition now from the amateur market on the web facebook and fan pages can double triple incomes by Are these films harmful subscription pages interactive negative side unrealistic expectation of sex and how women respond unrealistic of what women look like de sensitize viewers to pairing sex and romance over inform about technique and under inform about emotion denigrate women and secondarily men they feed rape fantasies Pro side what s the big deal they change no one they are exciting for couples or individuals to watch why is that wrong everyone knows these aren t average ppl ppl can learn from them and not be freaked out when they have sex they can help ppl get over their hang ups it s a free country this is a private sphere and we have no business regulation it The device business has also grown sex stores go mainstream fantasies lovers drugstore com walmart trojans Durex other condom companies Been around longer than you think Hamilton Beach patented first take home vibrator in 1902 It was the 5th electrical appliance to be introduced into the home after the sewing machine but before the iron by 1917 there were more vibrators that toasters in American homes Part of the feminist movement in the 70s Betty Dodson starts masturbation groups for women with the Hitachi Wand Beginning of wide spread of sex shops And then came the vibrator trials in the 1990s Trials in Texas Alabama Georgia Arkansas Mississippi Florida South Dakota and others this is when the Internet came and they spread everywhere The states could no longer control it Now only a few still don t allow vibrators one case went to supreme court and was overtured What about sex for Hire As individuals heterosexual and homosexual men For business Corporate provision of beautiful women Almost all for men exceptions the industry creates additional jobs Escorts Gigolos men looking for wealthy women to support them Chippendale from lap dancing to massages to full scale prostitution Cab drivers just about everyone of them in Bali Bellman Selling Drugs Two hr rooms etc Services Vary its about how far you can go and not get arrested the big tips are for what the women will do Regulation varies by city county country King County how close a lap dance can be Nevada prostitution legal by county classic Mustang Ranch countrywide in Holland Germany Trafficking however is illegal everywhere But a huge business Basically sexual slavery Millions of girls women enslaved South East Asia alone estimated 200 million women From impoverished countries Sex tourists Thailand others brothels surrounded by electrified wire Bugis street in Singapore now defunct Big buyers Sweden Big tourists Japan Philippines Nothing Pretty Woman about it In Thailand average about 15 customers a day most not getting that revenue Very likely to be HIV infected Study found girls found from soviet union in New York Bethesda Maryland and China 1991 1996 freed 88 000 women and children kidnapped for sex India Nepal Pakistan Bangladesh 15 million Baltic Countries Russia Scandinavia others signs warning young women in LA We will talk about violational prostitution with the caveat a certain amount is due to poverty or drugs and that is rarely violational Why are we so fascinated with prostitution The romanticization of the sexually free woman the idea of a woman that will do anything woman as sexual outlaw paradoxically a woman who will always say yes for a price or the whore with a heart of gold different for me rescuer fantasies Is it just sex in general sex workers are also EMOTION WORKERS counterfeit intimacy flattery seduction caring Characteristics of sex workers generally young Begin at average of 22 yrs but significant number under age 16 Start to earn money for drugs Backgrounds childhood abuse for both adolescent boys and girls start using sex to please and get their way self loathing Different class levels Street 1 approx 10 are streetwalkers 2 usually entry level for adolescents 3 most visible to cops 4 most vulnerable rob rape 90 report sexual assault 5 Usually 5 days a week 5 clients a day fellatio most common activity less than 25 have intercourse Brothel Workers safer where it is legal and regulated more camaraderie more repeat customers different from massage parlors generally richer more secret client le will cater to more quirks long term customers Part time workers housewives college show girls and opportunistic gifts that turn into cash that turn into being kept a period of time or occasionally call girls Gigolos We call some prostitutes and some not what s the difference Highest aid 1000 plus a night best educated need to be to be able to pass work through referrals contacts And may pose problems for HIV work and helping women out of the life only one customer Definition of the situation Males mostly for other males 3 sub cultures young criminal associations street culture chickens chicken Hawks Hustlers may not think of selves as gay Gay Sub Culture Transvestite culture Gigolos for