Wednesday, January 25, 2017

The Pornography Tug-of-War

In the article Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom: A Closer Look, Helen Longino concludes that dirty word is shocking and should be censored. She believes that anything which causes blot or is unhealthful to people in any way than it is illegal. Longino believes that pornography causes emotional injury and gravely degrades to women. The tolerance of this physical reinforces this injury. \nLongino begins by explaining how the trip outual revolution of the mid-sixties and seventies released a stuff of knowledgeable behavior and full-grown material. Tradition wholey, such behavior and case was considered immoral. Sex that was non for the touch on purpose of procreation, outside of marriage, or sex with the same sex was frowned upon. She goes on to say that the internal revolution had beneficial results for a flourishing acceptance of the eminence between questions of knowledgeable traditions and its morality. Longino states that What is immoral is behavior which cau ses injury to or violation of another soul or people.  Injury was not limited to physical injury but included psychologically according to Longino. We cannot condemn forms of sexual behavior on the fix opinion of it being disgustful or not cooccur with ones religion. But according to Longino we do not have to sustain pornography once it becomes harmful to people. \nLongino defines pornography as literal or pictorial clear histrionicss of sexual behavior that, in the words of Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, have as a distinguishing characteristic the degrading and demeaning portrayal of the function and status of the human effeminate as a unpolluted sexual object to be exploited and manipulated sexually.  \nFirstly, Longino argues that women are some always the recipient of ruby-red sexual encounters that provide sexual stimuli to the male characters. Longino states not all sexually explicit material is pornography, nor is all material which contains represe ntation of sexual abuse...

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