Women's Excuses and Justifications for Pornography Consumption
Location
CSU 201
Start Date
9-4-2012 2:00 PM
End Date
9-4-2012 3:00 PM
Student's Major
Sociology and Corrections
Student's College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Mentor's Name
Maria Bevacqua
Mentor's Department
Sociology and Corrections
Mentor's College
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Description
Although pornography has been a contested issue among feminists since the 1980’s, much of the feminist research on pornography has been conducted from an anti-pornography perspective. However, sex-positive feminists need a louder voice in the scholarly literature on pornography. This study uses data from both surveys and in-depth interviews from female respondents to examine how women who enjoy pornography either excuse or justify their consumption of pornographic material. The findings of the study suggest that women often have nuanced relationships with pornography, including how they reconcile or experience conflict with their enjoyment of pornography and their self-definitions of femininity, their feminist political views, or their expressions of sexuality.
Women's Excuses and Justifications for Pornography Consumption
CSU 201
Although pornography has been a contested issue among feminists since the 1980’s, much of the feminist research on pornography has been conducted from an anti-pornography perspective. However, sex-positive feminists need a louder voice in the scholarly literature on pornography. This study uses data from both surveys and in-depth interviews from female respondents to examine how women who enjoy pornography either excuse or justify their consumption of pornographic material. The findings of the study suggest that women often have nuanced relationships with pornography, including how they reconcile or experience conflict with their enjoyment of pornography and their self-definitions of femininity, their feminist political views, or their expressions of sexuality.
Recommended Citation
Verde, Rachel. "Women's Excuses and Justifications for Pornography Consumption." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 9, 2012.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2012/oral-session-10/3
