Pornography is printed or visual material containing the explicit description or display of sexual organs or activity, intended for erotic stimulation. Child pornography is the illegal use of children with in visual material. Children have been used as sexual objects since the beginning of time. It is in this time period children have been laws raised to protect children from abuse in a sexual manner. “Pornography in the modern sense began with the invention of the camera in the early nineteenth century.” (Pg1, Ln11-12) Pornography in the beginning was erotic literature and portraits of their bodies. Even though throughout the twentieth century child pornography was of poor quality, and harder to obtain it was also a restricted activity. From 1977-80’s 250 adolescent pornography magazines and the internet changed the scale of the problem. Local and Federal departments take part in handling the responsibility of child pornography.
“Internet child pornography is only one of a number of problems related to either abuse or the Internet.”(Pg3 Ln1-2) If one lifts the vale and goes beyond Internet child pornography they will find child abuse can be originated in many other variety. Child abuse can range from neglect from the exposure to hazardous materials.
Protecting children from sexual exploration is a modern concept. “As late as the 1880s in the United States, the age of consent for girls was just 10 years.” (Pg4Ln2-3) From 1977-88 only two states had legislation specifically outlawed the use of children in obscene material, the first federal law was passed, and a law that specified to child pornography. From a federal stand point a child is anyone under the age of eighteen. The definitions of both child and pornography differ amo...
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...ct pedophilia. The Internet can be used for more than uploading and viewing sexual child pornophilia. The Internet endorses the sexual abuse of children by allowing networking, groomers seeking victims, cyber-stalking, the promotion or sexual tourism using children, and the trafficking of children. Someone with skills using a computer will have the ability to cover their tracks and but many do not have that ability. The most obvious in evidence is the information saved to the hard drive. A simple hand held device can be used as evidence when incriminating the perpetrator. Servers can provide much information that gives you the ability track the pornography of use. Online activity is seen and monitored by law enforcement.
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Ashcroft vs. ACLU, 00-1293, deals with a challenge to the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which Congress passed in 1998. The law, which is the subject of this essay, attempts to protect minors from exposure to Internet pornography by requiring that commercial adult websites containing "indecent" material that is "harmful to minors" use age-verification mechanisms such as credit cards or adult identification numbers.(Child)
Child pornography is a form of child sexual exploitation. Federal law defines child pornography as any visual depiction of sexual explicit could use images of child pornography are also referred to as child sexual abuse images.
In today’s American society, almost everyone, even children as young as six, owns a cell phone with a camera. Although convenient, camera phones also open the door to massive problems concerning child pornography that stem from sexting, or sending nude or lascivious photos. According to a 2010 Federal Bureau of Investigation survey1 of 4,400 middle and high school students, “approximately eight percent of students reported that they had sent a sext of themselves to others while thirteen percent said they had received a sext.” The main problem with sexting, aside from being child pornography if it is a picture of minor, is the ease of dissemination of the sext to other contacts or even the Internet. The United States alone has seen several students commit suicide after a sext intended for one person’s eyes goes viral or is sent to the entire high school. Such was the case of Ohio high school student, Jesse Logan, who sent nude photos to her boyfriend who then sent them to other students who harassed her until she committed suicide.2
To sufficiently take a side in the ever-growing debate of pornography, one must first define the concept around which this discourse surrounds itself. A working definition for pornography is a piece of material that has the object purpose of arousing erotic feelings. Radical feminists, however, strictly define it as “the act of sexual subordination of women” (Dworkin 1986).
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With over 759 million registered domain names, the Internet has proved to be the definitive source of information (Hunter). Covering a full spectrum of subjects and services, it is an entity that we can not do without. However, despite all this usefulness, more than 14 percent of all websites are dedicated to pornography (Ward). To further worsen the matter, more than 13 percent of all searches made daily are
Laura Kipnis has described pornography as “an archive of data about...our history as a culture”. Therefore if, she described it as such, what can it tell us about the sexual history of the 20th century? Examining the history of the forms of archive from pornographic playing cards to blu-ray discs and the internet, this shows the ever changing form of how as a society we view pornography. From the forms of archive come the social implications of pornography. This will be examined through the 1986 Meese Commission in the United States of America into the pornographic industry. Finally, this exposition will also examine the differing views of Gay and Straight pornography and the changes that have taken over the 20th century. Overall, the 20th century was a fundamental shift in sexual attitudes towards pornography.
Pornography has been the leading player in exhibiting sexual behavior to those who care for such things. In fact, Pornography has become an $8 billion a year industry. However, like every industry, ethical and moral questions and situations come up. Although there are many in dealing with pornography, we will explore the area of Child Pornography.
In the today’s society, social media has gone out of hand. Most people these days have a cell phone, Ipad and/or laptop and most definitely a television at their home. Therefore, access to pornography has become extremely easy and can be available to any individual in less than 5 minutes. The best definition of pornography can be explained as sexually explicit words or images intended to provoke sexual arousal. The easy access to porn has raised many people to question if porn is harmful, if it should be censored, and if it is unsafe. Many debates have been going on about porn concerning freedom of rights, speech, and entertainment and right of privacy. The main people to have argued on this point are Catherine Mackinnon and philosopher J.S. Mill.
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