Pornography

Conceptualizing Pornographication

“…One of the major limitations with the dominant understandings of the mainstreaming of pornography that come from McNair’s work, however, is the obfuscation of the pornography industry as an element of the mainstreaming process. This obfuscation has effectively functioned to sideline more established feminist critiques of the pornography industry (e.g., Dines, Jensen, & Russo, 1998; Dworkin, 1981; Dworkin & MacKinnon, 1997; Itzin, 1992; Russell, 1998) from discussions about the mainstreaming of porn.…”

“…That is, McNair’s definition effectively (and erroneously) makes the process of pornographication appear separately from the pornography industry itself (cf. Dines, 1998, 2010; Tyler, 2011).…”

“…The second tendency noted by Sørensen (2005), the cleanup, relates to the increasing legitimacy of pornography and, in particular, the way that pornography and the pornography industry have become widely covered topics within the mainstream media. This aspect of pornophication is most like the definitions offered by scholars using the terminology relating to the mainstreaming or normalization of pornography, like Dines (1998, 2010), for instance, who links the pornography industry directly to the trends of mainstreaming.…”

“…Again, pornography is assumed to represent what everybody knows and accepts to be the truth about sex rather than just one model of sex. Sex and sexual desire become equated with pornography, and pornography is equated with sex rather than a particular kind of sex that eroticizes violence and has implications for sexual inequality and the status of women (Barry, 1995, 1997; Bridges et al, 2010; Dines et al, 1998; Dworkin, 1981; Itzin, 1992; Jeffreys, 2010; MacKinnon, 1989, 2005; Tyler, 2010).…”

Sexually Explicit Internet Material and Adolescents’ Sexual Uncertainty: The Role of Disposition-Content Congruency

“…As sexually explicit material relatively often depicts casual sex, male sexual dominance, and women who are willing and desiring to have sex (for content analyses, see: Bridges, Wosnitzer, Scharrer, Sun, & Liberman, 2010 ; Brosius, Weaver, & Staab, 1993 ; Dines, Jensen, & Russo, 1998 ), the content in SEIM may be somewhat more congruent with male socialization than with female socialization. In fact, previous research on responses to sexually explicit material has shown that women are generally more critical toward such content than men because such content is not congruent with women’s sexual socialization (Allen et al, 2007 ; Laan, Everaerd, van Bellen, & Hanewald, 1994 ; Mosher & Maclan, 1994 ).…”