A Thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Technology, Kumasi,in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Art Education, 2011

Pornography and Sexual Aggression.

Nudity in painting: art or pornography? a case study of the department of painting and sculpture (knust)

Coercive sexuality and dominance

Genetics, functional anatomy and coercive behavior

In the last decade the mass media worldwide has become more influential and more powerful. After it became possible in the Federal Republic of Gennany in the fifties to receive one TV programme and in the sixties and seventies to receive three TV programmes, the number of TV programmes which can be received has risen through cable TV to eleven or more programmes in the last years, reaching a huge part of the population in Western Europe.

Crime in the mass media

Since Reconstruction there has always been an antipornography movement in the United States. From the heyday of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice in the 1880s, to the debates over the Hays code in Hollywood in the 1930s, to the founding of Women Against Pornography in 1979, our society has consistently struggled to resolve two crucial and interrelated questions: First, does pornography incite people to behave in “antisocial” ways or to commit crimes against individuals and society? Second, should the state regulate or censor materials it regards as obscene or pornographic? These debates have always been compelling, drawing authorities from just about everywhere in our culture. Many participants in this running controversy have devoted their lives to its resolution. None has come even remotely close to settling the matter. Today the courts and legislatures continue to argue the pornography question much as they did in the 1860s, when jurists first established that the test of obscenity lay in whether a book has depraved and corrupted the minds of the vulnerable.

Pornography and Sexual Aggression.

Citations

Nudity in painting: art or pornography? a case study of the department of painting and sculpture (knust)

Coercive sexuality and dominance

Genetics, functional anatomy and coercive behavior

Crime in the mass media

The Triumph of the Visual: Stages and Cycles in the Pornography Controversy from the McCarthy Era to the Present

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