What Is Pornography ?
According to jstor.org's "What is Pornography" feminist review, the Campaign against Pornography and Censorship (CPC) defines porn as:
the graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures
and/or words, that also includes one or more of the following: women
portrayed as sexual objects, things or commodities, enjoying pain or
humiliation or rape, being tied up, cut up, mutilated, bruised or physically
hurt, in postures of sexual submission or servility or display, reduced to
body parts, penetrated by objects or animals, or presented in scenarios
of degradation, injury, torture, shown as inferior, bleeding, bruised or
hurt in a context which is sexual.
the graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures
and/or words, that also includes one or more of the following: women
portrayed as sexual objects, things or commodities, enjoying pain or
humiliation or rape, being tied up, cut up, mutilated, bruised or physically
hurt, in postures of sexual submission or servility or display, reduced to
body parts, penetrated by objects or animals, or presented in scenarios
of degradation, injury, torture, shown as inferior, bleeding, bruised or
hurt in a context which is sexual.
OR WE CAN BREAK THIS DOWN THE NON-FEMINIST WAY
Porn
— n
1. Also called: porno pornography publications or broadcasts that demonstrate an unhealthy or voyeuristic interest in a particular subject: property porn ; food porn
2. censorious Also called: porno pornography publications or broadcasts that demonstrate an unhealthy or voyeuristic interest in a particular subject: property porn ; food porn
— adj
3. Also: porno pornographic: porn movie ; porno mag
1. Also called: porno pornography publications or broadcasts that demonstrate an unhealthy or voyeuristic interest in a particular subject: property porn ; food porn
2. censorious Also called: porno pornography publications or broadcasts that demonstrate an unhealthy or voyeuristic interest in a particular subject: property porn ; food porn
— adj
3. Also: porno pornographic: porn movie ; porno mag
References
- http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1395070.pdf?acceptTC=true
- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Porn
- http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1395070.pdf?acceptTC=true
- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Porn
