PHIL 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emma Goldman, Havelock Ellis, Sex Worker
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About reading someone else hidden stack of pornography. Reflections on her own sexual education and the similarity of the pornography to mythology. Reflections on the development of her own sexual identity. The size of the gap between the fantasies that are arousing and the real life people/situations that are. What counts as pornographic (and thus obscene) is in large part context dependent. This is really the familiar point about perversion. Any bodily contact between a man and a woman that gives them pleasure is a possible vehicle for the system of multilevel awareness that i have claimed is the basic psychological content of sexual interaction (110) Sexual activity is a body language that is expressive (rather than active) with content limited to interpersonal attitudes and feelings. Sexual desire is desire for contact with another person"s body and for the pleasure which such contact produces (268)
