These are all-important questions one might ponder. This is precisely why a sex week type event at universities and colleges are so important.
Yale has a sex education week as well as William and Mary having the "Sex Workers Art Show" on campus.
Make your own decisions but please be careful not to judge others.
Pornography
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Pornography or porn is the depiction of explicit sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual excitement.
Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from books, magazines, postcards, photos,sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video, or video game. However, when sexual acts are performed for a live audience, by definition[citation needed] it is not pornography, as the term applies to the depiction of the act, rather than the act itself. Thus, portrayals such as sex shows and striptease are not classified as pornography.
Pornography has often been subject to censorship and legal restraints on publication on grounds ofobscenity. Such grounds and the very definition of what is or is not pornography have differed in different historical, cultural and national contexts.....[1]
.....Legal status
| Sex and the law |
|---|
| Social Issues |
| Rights · Ethics |
| Pornography · Censorship |
| Miscegenation (interracial relations) |
| Same-sex marriage · Homophobia |
| Red-light district |
| Age of consent · Essentialism |
| Objectification · Antisexualism |
| Violence · Slavery |
| Public morality · Norms |
| Specific Offences |
| May vary according to Jurisdiction |
| Adultery · Incest |
| Sexting · Seduction |
| Deviant sexual intercourse |
| Sodomy · Buggery · Zoophilia |
| Criminal transmission of HIV |
| Circumcision · Female Genital Cutting |
| Sexual harassment · Public indecency |
| Extreme pornography · Child pornography |
| Sexual assault · Rape · Statutory rape |
| Sexual abuse (Child) |
| Child grooming · Prostitution of children |
| Prostitution and Pimping |
| Portals: Sexuality · Law · Criminal justice |
- See List of pornography laws by region for detailed list
The legal status of pornography varies widely from country to country. Most countries allow at least some form of pornography. In some countries, softcore pornography is considered tame enough to be sold in general stores or to be shown on TV. Hardcore pornography, on the other hand, is usually regulated. The production and sale, and to a slightly lesser degree the possession, of child pornography is illegal in almost all countries, and most countries have restrictions on pornography involving violence or animals.
Most countries attempt to restrict minors' access to hardcore materials, limiting availability to adult bookstores, mail-order, and television channels that parents can restrict, among other means. There is usually an age minimum for entrance to pornographic stores, or the materials are displayed partly covered or not displayed at all. More generally, disseminating pornography to a minor is often illegal. Many of these efforts have been rendered practically irrelevant by widely available Internet pornography.
In the United States, a person receiving unwanted commercial mail he or she deems pornographic (or otherwise offensive) may obtain a Prohibitory Order, either against all mail from a particular sender, or against all sexually explicit mail, by applying to theUnited States Postal Service.
There are recurring urban legends of snuff movies, in which murders are filmed for pornographic purposes. Despite extensive work to ascertain the truth of these rumors, law enforcement officials have been unable to find any such works.
The Internet has also caused problems with the enforcement of age limits regarding performers and subjects. In most countries, males and females under the age of 18 are not allowed to appear in porn films, but in several European countries the age limit is 16, and in Denmark it is legal for women as young as 16 to appear topless in mainstream newspapers and magazines.[citation needed] This material often ends up on the Internet and can be viewed by people in countries where it constitutes child pornography, creating challenges for lawmakers wishing to restrict access to such material.
Some people, including pornography producer Larry Flynt and the writer Salman Rushdie,[12] have argued that pornography is vital to freedom and that a free and civilized society should be judged by its willingness to accept pornography.
The UK Government has criminalised possession of what it terms "extreme pornography" following the highly publicised murder of Jane Longhurst.
Effect on sexual crime
Main article: Social effects of pornography
Research concerning the effects of pornography is inconclusive. Some studies support the contention that the viewing of pornographic material may increase rates of sexual crimes, while others have shown no effects, or a decrease in the rates of such crimes. Moreover, all these studies focus on various correlations, but correlation does not imply causation.
Anti-pornography movement
Main article: Anti-pornography movement
Opposition to pornography comes generally, though not exclusively, from several sources: law, religion and feminism.
Feminist objections
Main article: Feminist views on pornography
Feminist critics of pornography, such as Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, generally consider it demeaning to women. They believe that most pornography eroticizes the domination, humiliation, andcoercion of women, reinforces sexual and cultural attitudes that are complicit in rape and sexual harassment, and contributes to the androcentric objectification of women.
Legal objections
Religious objections
Main article: Religious views on pornography
Some religious groups discourage members from viewing pornography, and support legislation restricting its publication. These positions derive from broader religious beliefs about human sexuality. They believe that God created human beings and created sexual intercourse for them in the context of marriage. Thus, sex-oriented entertainment, as well as lack of modesty, are considered to cheapen human sexuality and be a misuse of it.[13]
Now please read about Buck Angel and his journey. Try to read the article through his eyes. If you are Transgender, you will know what I mean. If you do not understand, read it again through a student's eyes. As the saying goes, "ya gotta do, what ya gotta do." Survival has nothing to do with religious beliefs or societal values.
Buck Angel pulled himself up by his bootstraps, got sober and transitioned. I suspect the very folks who are aghast with pornography and prostitution are the same people who view his and similar movies as well as cruise the streets looking for a "date."
By David Burt
Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, February 15, 2010
Despite receiving an anonymous threat before his visit, Buck Angel, a female-to-male transgender porn star, spoke at a Master’s Tea as part of Sex Week at Yale on Saturday.
Angel shared his life story with an audience of about 50 students at the Pierson College master’s house. He emphasized the importance of self-acceptance and urged people not to submit to the labels society assigns them. Some students said they disagree with his participation in pornography, while others said they enjoyed his message.
Angel grew up in Southern California as a girl who enjoyed sports and often hung out with the boys, he said; both his family and his neighbors treated him like a boy.
When puberty came, everything changed.
“I started to not feel right in my body,” he said. Angel felt like a boy, but people started to treat him like a girl. “People were not interacting with me like they were before.”
In order to suppress his inner turmoil, he said he turned to drugs and alcohol and attempted suicide several times.
He became a female fashion model, he said, although he felt out of place walking down the runway. The fashion industry furthered his drug addiction, he said, which precipitated the end of his modeling career. After becoming a prostitute in Hollywood for a while, an old friend convinced him to become sober.
“Sobriety is what woke me up,” he said.
He realized that he needed to change something in his life, so became excited when he learned of the possibility of a female-to-male transformation, he said. He researched and finally found a doctor that had performed male-to-female transformations, he said, but never female-to-male. Angel received hormone shots and later breast removal surgery, and said he felt that his external appearance finally matched his inner feelings.
“I wasn’t hiding anymore,” he said.
In a clip from his YouTube program “Bucking the System,” which he showed at the Tea, Angel explained that his sexuality is very fluid. He considers himself not bisexual, but “sexual,” he said.
“Labels are not necessary,” he said.
After his transition, Angel pioneered a new genre of female-to-male transgender pornography with a goal of “fulfilling fantasies for people.”
In late January, Angel posted on his Facebook that he received a threat with regard to his visit at Yale, and he needed security while on campus. Angel did not address the threat while speaking Saturday.
Students at Yale had mixed opinions on the star and his visit.
Dan Geoffrion ’10, a member of Yale Students for Christ who did not attend the event, said he did not disagree with the decision to invite Angel to speak at Yale, but he disagreed with the overall tone of Sex Week.
“The SWAY events are very sexual-normative and don’t include speakers that promote values such as saving sex until marriage,” he said, adding that he disagreed with Angel’s promotion of pornography. “I believe that God made sex to be this awesome, wonderful act of physical and spiritual intimacy. Pornography has far too low a view of sex. Pornography promotes the view of sex as an act of physical gratification rather than the holistic intention of what sex can and should be.”
Six students interviewed who attended the tea all said they appreciated Angel’s message.
Stephen Silva ’10 said he enjoyed listening to Angel speak and approved of his work.
“[Pornography] helped me become comfortable with my own body, and it opened up forms of sexual expression that I simply wouldn’t have learned otherwise,” he said.
Sunday marked the last day of Sex Week at Yale.
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