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A new element introduced by the Miller decision was the restriction of the definition of unprotected obscenity to that expressly laid out by state law. This provision, they believed, would get rid of the problem of giving fair notice to a dealer that material may subject him to prosecution (Ashcroft, 2011)

Obscenity and Pornography


"The Court also held that the statute's use of a contemporary community standard to determine what is "patently offensive" on the Internet "means that any communication available to a nation wide audience will be judged by the standards of the community most likely to offend by the message." The implication of this statement is that any definition that refers to "contemporary community standards" in the context of the Internet may be per se overly broad" (Fee, 2007)

Obscenity and Pornography


Definitions of both, however, are elusive as people's views on these issues are quite divergent. The laws dealing with obscenity and pornography therefore have turned out to be controversial since, as the saying goes, "one man's trash is another man's pleasure" (Held, 2010)

Obscenity and Pornography


Web publishers do not have the ability to direct or stop their materials from reaching a particular geographical location. Any post is equally accessible to the most liberal community as well as the most conservative community (Mashima, 1999)

Obscenity and Pornography


This prong of the Miller test grants local (geographically-defined) communities the independence to draw the line between sexually-themed speech that is to be protected by the First Amendment within and for their respective communities, and sexually-themed speech that is to be deemed outside of the First Amendment's protection within and with respect to their communities. Therefore, although it might reasonably be thought that the First Amendment sets forth a national standard of protection for expression, in the context of regulating sexually themed speech, the Supreme Court's obscenity jurisprudence grants local communities the autonomy to determine what subset of such speech, if any, is to be deemed outside the protection of the First Amendment within and with respect to their communities (Nunziato, 2007)

Obscenity and Pornography


And an obscenity does not have to be pornographic in nature. For example, showing somebody middle fingers is obscenity but it does not involve pornography (Rea, 2001)

Obscenity and Pornography


S. decision in 1973, adopted the following three prongs to determine obscenity: (a) whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patiently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value (Scott, Eitle, & Skovron, 1990, p

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A Michigan state police study of 38,000 rapes concluded that pornography was used prior to or during the commission of the rape in 41% of all sexual assault cases. Factors that are related to the development of deviant sexual preferences are a sexually inappropriate family environment, use of pornography during childhood and adolescence, and deviant sexual fantasies during childhood and adolescence (Beauregard, Lussier and Proulx)

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Often, viewers tend to act out the sexual behaviors viewed in the pornography, including compulsive promiscuity, exhibitionism, sex with minor children, rape, and inflicting pain on themselves or a partner during sex. This behavior may grow into sexual addiction, which many find is extremely difficult to stop despite the negative consequences resulting from this habit (Bergner)

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" The study showed that 91% of males and 82% of females admitted to having been exposed to hard-core pornography. About half of college students receive unwanted pornography via email (Finn)

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Experts estimate that as many as one in three girls and one in seven boys will be sexually molested before age eighteen. Furthermore, although pornography plays an unclear role in the commission of sex crimes, when pornography is used in these crimes, the victims are primarily children (Langevin and Curnoe)

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And, among high school students, 31% of males and 18% of the females admitted doing some of the sexual acts they had seen in the pornography within a few days after exposure. Tyden and colleagues reported that 53% of a sample of 300 young men said that pornography impacted their sexual behavior (Tyden and Rogala)

How Pornography Has Changed Because of the Internet


Meanwhile what we do know about pornography, Attwood explains, is that online pornographies are exploding on the Web and they offer a "…key site for moral, political and legal debates about sex and regulation." That said, since the 1990s much of the focus has been on "the child victims of porn" and the pedophiles that are believed to be "lurking online" waiting for a chance to somehow interact with young online users (Attwood, 2010, 172)

How Pornography Has Changed Because of the Internet


Meanwhile what we do know about pornography, Attwood explains, is that online pornographies are exploding on the Web and they offer a "…key site for moral, political and legal debates about sex and regulation." That said, since the 1990s much of the focus has been on "the child victims of porn" and the pedophiles that are believed to be "lurking online" waiting for a chance to somehow interact with young online users (Attwood, 2010, 172)

How Pornography Has Changed Because of the Internet


Gender Research: Males and females make use of online pornography A 2012 peer-reviewed article in the journal Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity first of all shatters the myth that online pornography and erotica is viewed mainly by males. In fact one in three visitors to adult websites (where pornography is free and available) are women, and 70% of those women report that they keep their online sexual activities "a secret" (Corley, et al

How Pornography Has Changed Because of the Internet


[One reason that many citizens link pornography with child victims is the publicity that surrounds cases where purveyors of child pornographic materials are arrested. For example, the Associated Press reported on May 21 that seventy people were arrested in New York City on May 20 for "trading of child porn over the Internet" (Hays, 2014)

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St. James has produced what journalist Amanda Hess calls "…both steamy romantic narratives and explicit all-sex releases" (Hess, 2013)

How Pornography Has Changed Because of the Internet


An article in the Australian publication Mamamia.com, depicts some model dummies in American Apparel boutiques that are exploitative and actually nasty, or as Patty Huntington writes, one "squatting store mannequin who was flashing rather a lot of va-jay-jay" (Freedman, 2010)

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Pornography, Women, And the Digital Revolution Digital technologies have gone through a revolutionary period of development over the past twenty or so years. Some say that the digital revolution is helping to facilitate participatory democracy; some say it will "sweep aside the gatekeepers, allowing free expression and broad access to information"; but on the other hand this revolution has the potential to corrupt innocent children by exposing them to "video game violence, pornography and cybersex" (Jenkins)

How Pornography Has Changed Because of the Internet


Women were certainly sexualized and objectified in a number of very provocative ads promoted by American Apparel, a company that has been banned from advertising in the United Kingdom due to the use of a model who looked to be no more than 16 years of age. A photo in AdWeek shows a model topless (with her left hand covering her breasts) which is not so terribly provocative, but her pants are unzipped and her right hand looks like it is about to dip into to her panties for some self-stimulation (Nudd)