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What is pornography?
1. Current debates on "pornography"
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Current debate : what is pornography?
MCKEE, Alan, and al., « An Interdisciplinary Definition of Pornography: Results from a Global Delphi Panel », Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 49, 2020, p. 1087.
"Over three-quarters of the 36 respondents who attempted this task included the term “explicit” within their definition [...]. Just over half included “intention to arouse” or similar phrase. Over half of the sample mentioned only one term or the other, and less than half included both these terms (or cognates) in their definitions."
Current debate : what is pornography?
"Researchers disagreed on the place of “intent” in the definition. Some did state that pornographic material must be “designed,” “produced,” “for the purpose of” or “aiming at” or “intended” to or “meant” to provide arousal. However, other researchers suggested that material is pornographic if it is “consumed” for sexual arousal, or “stimulates,” or “sexually arouses."
"To gloss this last response, definitions of pornography “change over time” and the decision about who gets to decide what counts as pornographic and what they count as pornography is tied up with social and cultural relations of power."
Current debate : what is pornography?
Second definition
First definition
“Sexually explicit materials intended to arouse”
"Pornography is not a thing but a concept, a category of texts managed by institutions led by powerful groups in society in order to control the circulation of knowledge and culture, changing according to geographical location and period."
Current debates : what is pornography?
"Of the 27 participants who replied to this tranche of the survey, 21 Agreed or Strongly Agreed with the first definition Sexually explicit materials intended to arouse, while just two Disagreed or Strongly Disagreed. For the second definition, 15 respondents Agreed or Strongly Agreed, while nine Disagreed or Strongly disagreed."