Susan Brownmiller's essay voices her feminist view towards pornographic material. Her claim is that without restriction, the first amendment has allowed women to be publicly perceived as objects.…
The Bedford case goes hand-in-hand with many other security of the persons interest cases under section 7 of the Charter of Rights & Freedoms. Section 7 of the Charter states that “everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.”[12] The Court stated that the purpose of section 7 is to ensure that laws that impact the rights to life, liberty and security of the person do not conflict with our basic values. The 'principles of fundamental justice’s are in place in order to understand these basic values about justice.The Court said that one of these principles is a principle against “arbitrariness, over-breadth and gross disproportionality”. A law is “arbitrary” when there is no real connection between the effect of the law and its goal. A law is “over-broad" when the effect of the law goes too far and interferes with activities that are not part of its goal. A law is “grossly disproportionate” when the effect of the law is much harsher than the benefits of achieving its goal. These are all points which relate back to the famous Bedford V. Canada case. In the Bedford case, the governments and the laws they put in place threaten health and bodily integrity of sex workers across the country. In the Bedford case, it was a unanimous decision on behalf of the court, they agreed with the applicants that the criminal prohibitions on bawdy-houses, living on the avails of prostitution, and communicating for the purposes of prostitution “do not merely impose conditions on how prostitutes operate”. They go on to further explain their point by shining light on the dangerous and hidden conditions of prostitution; it stops workers who are apart of dangerous — but legal — work from being able to protect themselves from risks. The Supreme Court found that these provisions, concerned with…
(112)Brock’s (2012) article defines the ever-changing shift anti-prostitution campaigns changes in relation to the “marketplace” of prostitution in terms of labels put on the industry. Brock (2012) argues that Canadian patriarchal culture has created new labels for the business of prostitution in an effort to avoid the penalties of the law. These activist barriers to legal and social definitions of prostitution are important variables in the effort to build campaigns that will thwart these methods of “marketplace” manipulation of…
It is my feelings that pornography should be censored and no it does not violate the First Amendment. I am not as well versed on the Constitution of the United States as I would like to be, but I do know that the First Amendment is intended to allow freedom of religion, the right to exercise that religion; freedom of speech, individual or the press; freedom to peaceably assemble; and the freedom to petition the Government for any grievances. I also realize that amendments are subject to interpretation, and some court rulings of the years have altered the actual interpretation of this amendment. The intended purpose was to protect individuals and groups from persecution for practicing their beliefs. Society as a whole has put limitations on…
Pornogophy "turns a woman into a thing to be acquired and used." And that it is primarily concerned "with whether women bleed"(199) She Martian that there is no legitimate distinction between rape and pornography, describing pornography as "sexual terrorism" () Implicit to virtually every aspect of Mackinnon's arguments is the assumption that women are unmitigated, unequal perpetual victims of human sexuality. This argument is harmful to the feminist cause because it divorces women from their sexuality. It creates a double standard in which women are inherently degraded by sex, but men are not. It perpetuates the notion…
The internet can be a useful tool when used for the right reasons, but what about the wrong reasons, such as child pornography? Child pornography is growing in astounding numbers, it is gaining more popularity every year and there is still not enough legislation to help slow it down. Society has become overly sexually stimulated, simple sexual pleasures are now not enough in many people’s minds, which may lead to harmful, unhealthy sexual desires. Sexual abuse of minors has become a huge social problem in the world today. For a philosopher such as Plato was it normal to live this way? What was and is now considered to be a normal way of living?…
“Some have argued that the production of pornography involves the exploitation and mistreatment of women; thus, consumers of pornography support an industry that harms women. This may be true, but it has little bearing on restricting the rights of adult access to pornography. Many people work in industries that involve serious threats in hazardous situations: coal miners, electricians, and farmers, among others. To argue that pornography should be highly regulated, or censored, because some people have been mistreated in its production is the same as arguing that restaurants should be closed because some restaurants have had health code violations.”…
Question 7. 7. Which statement might be used to argue that pornography should be more tightly regulated? (Points : 1)…
What is the difference between an action and a porn movie? They are both something you can rent, buy , watch , they both come in the same video formats. Thus the key difference that deferentiates pornography is its content – sex. Sex is something that is absolutely normal , and actually is the main drive behind the human evolution. Human beings are aware that except for reproduction, sex is also something that brings pleasure and is one of the basic human needs. Than what defines a pornographic movie is that first of all it is a movie(its format) and second of all it has content (sex). Therefore if movies are morally accepted in the society, and sex itself is also a normal event between two(or more) human beings , combining two “moral” statements should bring us a conclusion that pornography is moral. Pornography is a product of choice. The increased demand for pornographic movies is picturing quite vividly that people choose to watch porn on their own will, and thus there is nothing immoral in it. Pornography as a job is also usually a personal choice and thus in the whole process of creating an adult movie all the parties are willingly consenting to participate , which again is not immoral because every person is entitled to the right of his or her own body.…
With the endorsement of viewing pornography also comes the endorsement of increasingly demeaning sex acts such as anal penetration, deep-throating, and fisting to name a few. Alongside the consumption of pornography, dominant and submissive relationships are not seen as problematic but the power imbalance can even be seen as empowering - as described in How to be a Healthy and Happy Submissive “feeling a need or desire to be dominated does not mean that you are … not a ‘good feminist’”. By looking at three key institutions of sexual behaviour: BDSM, pornography, and sex-work, this project aims to analyse the contrast between third-wave and second-wave feminist politics in relation to these areas in an effort to conclude whether or not third-wave and sex-positive feminism is harming…
When discussing the “XXX” industry, otherwise known as pornography or the adult film industry, people tend to discuss it in hushed tones, or rather not discuss it much at all. When it comes to sex in general, America generally is uncomfortable talking about sex and topics related to it. It should come as no surprise that the porn industry is treated in a similar fashion. Pornography, according to Sullivan, was considered “sexually 'explicit' writings, still or motion pictures and similar products designed to be sexually arousing,” (Sullivan, 2012, pg.321).…
Early 20th Century Vancouver was home to 40 female-run brothels , and police were concerned with eliminating street prostitution . This signified a control and toleration of sex work. Following the 1940’s, society viewed prostitutes as disease spreaders, causing sex workers to be removed from brothels, forced off the streets, fined, charged as criminals, and occasionally jailed . The closure of brothels continued rapidly in to the 1980’s . The perspective shift from society regarding prostitution caused a large shift in the momentum of prostitution. Women were forced on to the streets, with no place to go; their livelihoods were removed from them, and they were not only open public harassment, but to preying men and sexual predators due to the fact they were forced to take their previously safe work to the streets. According to today’s society, because one does not fit into a specific career class, they are not worthy of basic human rights. It is a completely inaccurate presumption that most people believe that prostitutes choose these lives, and so it is not their concern to attempt to help these…
Canada, in contrast to the Netherlands, has had a less progressive decriminalization process in terms of the commercialization of the sex trade. Of course, Canada’s neighbor, the United States, has had a long history of prohibition and criminalization of the sex trade as a role model for policies and regulations about prostitution. One of the major problems with the Canadian policy of regulating sex work remains in the legal decision not to provide law enforcement protection for women involved in a prohibition environment:…
In this age of technology and information, internet and mobile technology devices dominate our society (Burton, L, 2012, p.1), with over 90% of Australians aged 15-17 owning mobile phones (Australian Communications and Media Authority, 2010, ₱4). Today’s teens are also overexposed to sexual content in many aspects of the media (Burton, L, 2012). This highly sexualised digital culture has transformed the way youth relate to one other (Walker. S., Sanci, L. & Temple-Smith, M, 2011).One phenomenon that has emerged from the increased accessibility of these devices and sexual exposure is the practice of ‘sexting’ (Society Pages, 2013, ₱1).…
THE EFFECTS OF PORNOGRAPHY ON INDIVIDUALS, MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY Pat Fagan Pornography is a major threat to marriages, the family, and the society at large. It is not a private choice without public consequence. Pornography alters both sexual attitudes and behavior, undermining marriage, which in turn, undermines the stability of the entire community. THE FAMILY AND PORNOGRAPHY…