RELG 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Elisabeth Lloyd, Nudity, Child Pornography

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 271
• Professor: Jon Waind

Document Summary

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material. I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description. [hard-core pornography]; and perhaps i could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But i know i when i see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that (les amants sexy film) Difficult to define pornography; difficult to demonstrate harm . Internet and ease of access ( affordable, accessible, anonymous) Key concerns with harm : consent, aggression, violence; undue exploitation (163. 8) Standard is flexible (sensitive to shifts in public acceptance) Defining pornography": material that is sexually explicit, sexually explicit material designed primarily to produce sexual arousal in viewers, sexually explicit material designed primarily to produce sexual arousal in consumers in a way that is inherently transgressive. Mackinnon: it seems essential to the kick of pornography that it be to some degree against the rules (162) Reminder-> porneia in new testament = sexual immorality.