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- 131: Pornography
- Pornography Sexual morality has declined in America today. The immoral life can be seen all around us. We see it in drugs, alcohol, movies, magazines, gangs, teenage pregnancy, pre-marital sex, and society as a whole. A ... in any movie theater. They have become more common than ever before. Almost every movie with an "R" rating will have at least one sex scene. Even Forrest Gump, a highly acclaimed movie, had a sexual act and nudity involved. Also public television has been known to show nudity and sex. Allusions are made to sex in every part of our life. Work, school, sports, and recreation are all forums through which unhealthy sexual views are expressed. One of the more predominant and obvious forums for the proliferation of unhealthy sexual desires is pornography. Pornography is displaying the human body in a perverse, sexual way. It can be ...
- 132: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... later Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), the producing arm of Loew's, under the direction of Louis B. MAYER and Irving THALBERG.^Attacks against immorality in films intensified during this decade, spurred by the sensual implications and sexual practices of the movie stars both on and off the screen. In 1921, after several nationally publicized sex and drug scandals, the industry headed off the threat of federal CENSORSHIP by creating the office of ... Iron Horse, 1924), and its first great biblical epics (The Ten Commandments, 1923, and King of Kings, 1927, both made by Cecil B. DE MILLE). Other films of this era included Erich Von STROHEIM's sexual studies, Lon CHANEY's grotesque costume melodramas, and the first great documentary feature, Robert J. FLAHERTY's Nanook of the North (1922). European Film in the 1920s In the same decade, the European film industries ... GRANT, Gary COOPER, Clark GABLE, James STEWART--and some of America's greatest directors thrived on the pressures and excitement of studio production. Josef von STERNBERG became legendary for his use of exotic decor and sexual symbolism; Howard HAWKS made driving adventures and fast-paced comedies; Frank CAPRA blended politics and morality in a series of comedy-dramas; and John FORD mythified the American West.^American studio pictures seemed to ...
- 133: The Surprising Aspect of Sex in Heller's Catch-22
- ... Sex in Heller's Catch-22 Joseph Heller's humorist-war novel, Catch-22, has many surprising passages and themes. The part that is most surprising to me in Catch-22 is the amount of sexual connotation in a novel based around World War II. The question which has to be raised is, Is Catch-22 really about World War II? While this book is a fictious war novel, you get ... about something deeper than the war. It is about personal experiences of soldiers in the eyes of Joseph Heller which brings this book to a different level than what is expected. One example of heavy sexual content in Catch-22, is when Heller describes General Dreedle's nurse in great detail. Descriptions like "nubile breasts", "ripened" and "He drank her in insatiably from head to pointed toenail" (230), Or "He licked ... greatly because you don't think you are reading a war novel you think you're reading a pornographic fantasy novel, which it could have well been. Finally the last of the many examples of sexual content in Catch-22 is when Yossarian, the main character of the novel, molests Nurse Sue Ann Duckett. In a sad attempt of feeling sorry for Nurse Duckett, Yossarian helps her. At this point, ...
- 134: Growing Up GAY
- ... raised in heterosexual families, taught in heterosexual establishments, and put in heterosexual peer groups. Gay adolescents often feel forced by parents to pass as “heterosexually normal” (Herdt 2). As a result, homosexual teens hide their sexual orientation and feelings, especially from their parents. Limited research conducted on gay young adults on disclosure to parents generally suggests that disclosure is a time of familial crisis and emotional distress. Very few researchers argue ... development of gay identity. In fact, the nature/nurture argument plays a small, insignificant role concerning gay youths (Walling 11). Homosexual identity is the view of the self as homosexual in association with romantic and sexual situations (Troiden 46) Many researchers have either discussed or created several models or theories concerning the development of homosexual identity. However, the most prominent is Troiden’s sociological four-stage model of homosexual identity formation ... be pressure by parents and peers to change their behavior (Mallon, Helping 83). Feeling “different” and becoming self-alienated have been related to the heterosexual assumption. Among the most powerful causes are early homosexual and sexual encounters and disinterest in many of several gender conformist sorts, such as indifferent to the opposite sex or to sports. Gays tend to have their first sexual contact at an earlier age than heterosexuals ...
- 135: Violence and Pornography
- ... these murders, Ted Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his detention in various penitentiaries, he was mentally probed and prodded by psychologist and psychoanalysts hoping to discover the root of his violent actions and sexual frustrations. Many theories arose in attempts to explain the motivational factors behind his murderous escapades. However, the strongest and most feasible of these theories came not from the psychologists, but from the man himself, ˙as ... sexually violent images in the media and subsequent aggression and . . . callous attitudes towards women is much stonger statistically than the relationship between smoking and cancer˙ (Itzin 22). After considering the increase in rape and molestation, sexual harassment, and other sex crimes over the last few decades, and also the corresponding increase of business in the pornography industry, the link between violence and pornogrpahy needs considerable study and examination. Once the evidence ...
- 136: Murray Davis' Smut, Erotic Reality/Obscene Ideology
- ... more abstract in that, it depicts the sex act only and not the emotional or personal characteristics of the people involved in the act. (Davis, p. xx) He believes soft-core pornography is describing "a sexual experience", which conveys characteristics of the participants that are not described by hard-core pornography. Hard-core pornography describes "sexual behaviour" which involves more of the act of sex rather than the characteristics and feelings involved with sex. (Davis, p. xix) Although Davis admits that the vocabulary of sex is changing (Davis, p. xxv), he ... fully inform the audience about the characters personality types and social categories."(Davis, p. xx, 1983) Soft-core pornography, on the other hand, often depicts "the subtle phenomenological effects that result when a character's sexual behaviour clashes with his or her personal and social characteristics." (Davis, p. xx, 1983). In short, he study's literature or films that involve characters with personalities that are developed and conveyed to the ...
- 137: Politicians
- ... this he refers to the presidential election of 1992. Normally , press conferences are called when political matters arise. The conference mentioned was called by the conservatives. Paula Jones came forward and accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment; apparently Mr. Clinton made 'unwelcomed sexual advances" . He continues to point out that these are the same conservatives that only a few years earlier had denounced the idea of sexual harassment as 'feminist invention'. It is acts like this that ...
- 138: I Am A Feminist - Hear Me Roar!
- ... women as equals in the home, workplace, and political arena, and making women feel like members of society. Now the women's movement is lead by gender feminists who use collective thought and extremism. Abuse, sexual violence, and sexual harassment have been refined to make it appear most women are victims of these terrible crimes. Sexual harassment has been redefined to include unwanted staring and flirting from people that have no power over the " ...
- 139: School Girls
- ... in particular are subject to unrealistic standards of success. When they fall short, they overgeneralized failures with an intense self-punitiveness; by late adolescence, their self-esteem has spiraled downward.” (Pg.38) The focus of sexual harassment is a big one as well. Girls are not taught about sex and contraceptives, and therefore know nothing about their sexual selves. “We consciously infuse girls with a sense of shame.” (p.57) If we do not teach girls about their bodies, and teach them to be assertive, than sexual harassment will occur. “As much ...
- 140: Crime Prevention
- ... support the idea because they believe that the community can help themselves by actually doing something to benefit them. The local community can determine their own fate by addressing safety issues such as street violence, sexual harassment, and racist violence. Anti-racist groups, block watch and neighborhood watch are all kinds of this type of crime prevention that involve the community. To look at it from a larger societal level, all efforts ... windows or paint over the graffiti, than the offender doesn't get a chance to see his handiwork nor does anyone else. A company must have a set of rules to go by. For example, sexual harassment and limited long distance telephone calls for personnel use. Libraries have a loan policy for the return of the books that you borrow, if there were no rules than some people wouldn't ...
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