Drömmen om den goda pornografin. Om sextio- och sjuttiotalsfilmen och gränsen mellan konst och pornografi

Abstract

The dream of the good pornography today, draws its argument from a feminist anti-porn analysis that concludes that pornography is an expression of the patriarchal society where women are being obejctified and degraded. However, in the 1960s, there was another dream of the good pornography, one which claimed that the existing pornography was bad from an aesthetic point of view. It had to do with the fact that pornography was forbidden in Sweden until 1971, and one argument for legalization was that porn would then become much better. The article examines the dream of the good pornography, the relationship between art (cinema) and porn (film), and what happens to the issue of gender when the dividing line between the two categories is questioned. Historically, the relationship between art cinema and the pornographic film is complex and the two categories that at a first glance are so easy to distinguish, have lived in a mutual dependency of each other. Art films with sexually explicit material pushed the limits for censorship during the 1960s, but at the same time, the success of art films with sexually explicit material often relied on a censorship that allowed sex in art but not for pornographic purposes. The undefined border between art and pornography also bring to the fore a discussion of the gender ascribed to each category. Art, belonging to the realm of modernism and high culture, has, by some theorists, been regarded as masculine, whereas porn, belonging to what has sometimes been regarded as the feminine mass culture, is often discussed and analyzed as a male genre. At the same time, one point of departure for the dream of the good pornography in the 1960s as well as in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is woman, her sexuality and her consumption of pornography.

Pornography and Transnationality

“…Also, the ideals of sexual freedom that permeated progressive circles created a space for commercial entrepreneurship that would later, in the 1970s, clash with the kind of utopian notions of a "better" pornography, and the argument that decriminalization would render pornography obsolete, heard in the debates of the 1960s (Larsson 2007). Champagne's idea of "capital's voracious commodification of everything" (Champagne 1997, 84), needs to be modified on the border between Norway and Sweden, as it was here underlined by two welfare states' differing definitions of what was unhealthy or immoral.…”

Hälsosamhället i pedagogisk forskning

“…(Askling, 2006, s. 117) I denna definition beskrivs en uppsättning "grundläggande processer" (Askling, 2006, s. 117) samt några institutioner/organisationer. För föreliggande artikel är utgångspunkten att de grundläggande processerna även kan ske i hälsorelaterade institutioner och organisationer, till exempel inom hälsopolitiken, hälso-och sjukvården eller folkhälsoarbete, samt att det både inom och utanför de skolrelaterade institutionerna och organisationerna pågår hälsorelaterade pedagogiska processer, såsom hälsoupplysning och hälsofostran (se till exempel Larsson et al, 2016;Mårdén, 1999;Olsson, 1997Olsson, , 1999Quennerstedt, 2019;Wijk, 2002Wijk, , 2003Åkerblom, 2019a).…”

Forbidden literature: case studies on censorship

“…Lennerhed 1994 see also Johansson's contribution in this volume for previous methods of critique. See Lennerhed 1994;Larsson 2017; see also the introduction to the present volume for the tradition of transgression in modern art, and Schatz-Jakobsen in this volume for how the ban was lifted from one such 'cultural personality' in England. Lennerhed 1994;Arnberg 2010;Anderberg 1965.…”