Pornographic Images Research Articles

Pornographic effect of olanzapine: induction of vivid intrusive sexual obsessional images

Mr. A, 19 years old, had been seen by local child psychiatrists since the age of 16 due to school difficulties and interpersonal problems. The medical records describe schizoid personality traits and explosive reactions, but never, in the past, had obsessions or compulsions been documented. He was currently hospitalized for the first time complaining about identity problems and social withdrawal. At admission, we observed reduced affective modulation, a marked reduction of thought production and some formal thought disturbances like incoherencies and thought blocks. No delirium or hallucinations were objectivated. In the beginning, schizophrenia simplex was suspected; thus, olanzapine 5 mg monotherapy was initiated and the dose was increased to 10 mg after 6 days. After 4 weeks of olanzapine treatment, Mr. A complained about intrusive obsessional images of buttocks of persons when talking with them, being unable to concentrate on the conversation. He increasingly had these obsessions also in the absence of persons, describing them as being like pornographic images, not being sexually exciting, but highly distressing. Over the following 2 weeks, the patient reported a steady worsening, the intrusions being almost continuously present and the patient avoiding almost every personal contact.

Film beyond boundaries: film, migrant narratives and other media

Film beyond boundaries: film, migrant narratives and other media

The Pornography Wars: Exploring Two Distinct Feminist Identities

Current political debates over the legalization of gay marriage and the protection of a woman's reproductive rights rarely questions the critical reasons why our society upholds both patriarchal and homophobic values. This article explores one such way in which a patriarchy is sustained by the use of images, specifically pornographic images. Though many feminists would want to pursue a ban on pornography, such a ban would merely reinforce the idea that certain sexual desires between two consenting adults are immoral and degrading. Condemnation of images such as these has perpetuated the right for our culture to uphold homophobia for many debates, therefore, we, as a society, must be wary of such a policy.

"I resist it no longer": Enlightened Philosophy and Feminine Compulsion in Therese philosophe

The obscene novel Thérèse philosophe demonstrates the reliance of enlightened forms of judgment on the construction of literary language as at the origin of a constrained, corporeal reactivity toward which women are specifically inclined. The narrative of Thérèse philosophe confirms the conjunction of philosophy and literature as a crucial one for materialist thought, but in doing so presents the literary sphere as an arena from which critical self-mastery must always be forcibly wrenched. Philosophy, here, positions itself delicately in the momentary—but infinitely reiterated—resistance to the pornographic image, even as it defines itself in seeming complicity with this mode of representation.

Watch what you want [pornographic image sensor

This paper reports a new software that can find pornographic digital pictures no matter how they enter the office PC. Developed by the Irish firm, PixAlert, the software analyzes images for features that the company says are characteristics of pornography. It distinguishes foregrounds from backgrounds, discerns the edges of individual shapes, picks out faces and bodies and measures luminosity and texture. An image is given an overall score, and a high enough value indicates that the picture is likely to be pornographic. PixAlert also features a product that audits corporate networks by scanning every hard disk and analyzing every file.

Facilitating safer choices: use of warnings to dissuade viewing of pornography on the internet

AbstractThere are many facets of child safety on the internet. Here the interest is in two scenarios: firstly, protection of children using the internet from viewing pornographic images; and secondly, the prevention of damage to children through adults viewing child pornography disseminated via the internet. The aim is to explore whether warnings or informational advice attached to sites would dissuade individuals from visiting them. Consideration will be given to the practicalities of attaching these warnings as well as to their success/failure in other media and across other products before assessing their utility in these scenarios. In essence, their use to protect children against viewing pornography is probably of little value, and may be counterproductive except in helping carers to guide safe use on the internet. Use of informational advice attached to child pornography sites may have more success and be worth pursuing, as might realistic warnings of prosecution. More research needs to be conducted into automatic means of assessing the nature of sites, into the mechanics of successful warnings on the internet and into their effects in this medium and for this material. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Against the grain: black women and sexuality

abstract The work of Zanele Muholi and Ingrid Masondo, two black South African women photographers, draws attention to the deeply entrenched social codes that inform representations of black women and sexuality. By unsettling the images and conventions that underpin nationalist representations, racist and colonial mythmaking, and pornographic images, their photographs uncover ways of viewing black women's bodies and sexuality in relation to their agency, choice and independence. These photographers' works unsettle two forms of silencing. On one level, they obviously interrogate the suppression of black women's independence and voice through master narratives embedded in scientific categorisation, the mass media, a growing sex industry and heteronormative and patriarchal nationalist myths. On another level, they address the tendency among radical black women to dissimulate or repress discussions of black women's bodies and sexuality: racist legacies that fixate on the sexuality of black women have meant that black women's responses have often involved suppressing or dissembling discussion about bodies and sexuality, this leading to the continued dominance of racist, heteronormative and patriarchal public discourses. The photography of Muholi and Masondo demonstrates the enormous extent to which radical black women artists can open up liberating public discourses about body politics, sexuality and personal and social freedoms.

Against obscenity: reform and the politics of womanhood in America, 1873-1935

Radio shock jocks, Super Bowl entertainment, music videos, and internet spam-all of these topics inspire passionate disagreements about whether and how to regulate sexually explicit material. But even in the midst of heated debate, most people agree that children should be shielded from exposure to pornographic images. Why are children the focal point of debates over sexually explicit material? And how did a culture rooted in Puritanism and Victorianism become saturated with sex? In Against Obscenity, Leigh Ann Wheeler offers new answers to these questions through a study of women's anti-obscenity activism from 1873 to 1935. This period saw the emergence of an increasingly sexualized popular culture comprised of burlesque shows, risque vaudeville acts, and indecent motion pictures. It also witnessed the enfranchisement of women. These momentous cultural and political developments come together in a story about middle- and upper-class women who mobilized against lewd public amusements and, simultaneously, challenged the men whose work as activists, jurors, and even law enforcement officials, had defined and regulated obscenity for several decades. By the 1920s, women who led the anti-obscenity movement enjoyed the support of millions of American women and the attention of presidents, congressmen, and Hollywood moguls. Today we live in a world profoundly shaped by their work but largely ignorant of their influence. Using primary sources as intimate as private correspondence and as formal as meeting minutes, Against Obscenity tells the story of these all but forgotten women, exploring their passionate disagreements over whether to ban a touring stage show, close a local burlesque theater, disseminate explicit sex education pamphlets, or create a federal agency to regulate Hollywood films. It shows that the rise and fall of women's anti-obscenity leadership shaped American attitudes toward and regulation of sexually explicit material even as it charted a new era in women's politics. In the end, the book argues that essentialist identity politics divided and ultimately disarmed women's anti-obscenity reform, helping us understand the curiously muted impact of woman suffrage. It also cautions against framing debates over sexual material narrowly in terms of harm to children while highlighting the dangers of surrendering discourse about sexuality to the commercial realm.

An Index of Fame?

This paper discusses the presentation of fame that can be identified through popular search terms. These terms reveal how the rapidly shifting interest in individual identities of ‘fame’ are cast against a continuous sequence of expected and unexpected events including movie releases, annual holidays, murders and terrorist attacks. The central claim of this paper is that fame is continuously reconstituted across a wide spectrum of cultural experiences and actions. Fame is attached to individuals as a personification of mainstream cultural fascination with specific events – whether manufactured or unexpected – and artefacts.

Trafficking of women for marriage in China

Trafficking of women for marriage is recognized as a modern-day slave trade, although it has a long history in China. The reasons for its resurgence in China include, but are not limited to, patriarchal values, state-tolerated sex discrimination, vulnerability of women and the transformation of socio-economic situations. Accordingly, the task of eradicating the trafficking in women involves combating feudal and patriarchal assumptions about male dominance and male supremacy; building up the confidence and dignity of the gender of female; systematic governmental and international support of issues of importance to women; restructuring legal systems where they are still imperfect; adjusting economic systems so that women are never exploited economically; strengthening fundamental and higher education of women; regulating objectifying and pornographic media images of women; and developing ways in which men and women can relate without either dependency or dominance. The author examines and evaluates both the strengths and weaknesses of the current criminal justice policy of the Chinese government against trafficking practices. She then argues that the existing policy against trafficking is insufficient and ineffective and needs to be reformed in a number of aspects as suggested. In this article, the author takes a multi-disciplinary approach, including historical, cultural, economic, ideological, sociological and legal study.

Pornography, sex, and feminism

In this unabashed defence of pornography from a utilitarian-hedonist perspective, philosopher Alan Soble strongly rebuts both feminist and conservative critics. Soble demonstrates that neither conservative nor feminist critics of pornography show much acquaintance with the genre they criticise. This suggests that purely political motives underlie their critiques instead of reasoned, objective arguments based on thorough empirical research. Soble also faults critics of pornography for their failure of empathy: they refuse to see pornographic images from the various perspectives of their viewers. In approaching these images literally, detractors promulgate the worst possible interpretation of pornography. Further, they do not do justice to the social and psychological research about pornography and its purported harms. Conservatives and feminists manufacture their case against pornography and its consumers based on oversimplified interpretations of the images and a poor understanding of scientific studies.

Male interest in visual cues of sperm competition risk

Most forms of pornography are produced to sexually arouse men, and Malamuth [J. Commun. 46 (1996) 8.] has argued that they do this by appealing to male interests and preferences that evolved to solve adaptive problems associated with mating in ancestral environments. If sperm competition has been an important selection pressure during human evolution, then sexual arousal may be an adaptive response to its occurrence since frequent copulation can be an effective method of paternity assurance. Consequently, although men should generally find mate sharing to be aversive, they may nevertheless find cues of increased sperm competition risk to be sexually arousing. Therefore, they should be more aroused by pornography that incorporates cues of sperm competition, than by comparable material in which such cues are absent. This prediction was tested using several indirect methods. Content analyses of pornographic images on World Wide Web sites and of commercial “adult” video releases revealed that depictions of sexual activity involving a female and multiple males are more prevalent those involving a male and multiple females. Moreover, an on-line questionnaire on self-reported preferences and an on-line preference study that unobtrusively examined image selection behavior both yielded results suggesting that the patterns observed in the content analyses do reflect male preferences and interests.

E-Problems, E-Solutions

Summary Problem patrons are not a phenomenon exclusive to the public library arena. Academic libraries have throughout time had their own share of difficult patrons. This article focuses on problem patrons and reference staff in the academic library with a particular focus on electronic equipment and resources, particularly the Internet. Issues include viewing of pornographic images by patrons, plagiarism and the librarian's role, use of e-mail and chat, and cell phone use in the reference area.

Pornography in Usenet: a study of 9,800 randomly selected images.

This paper builds on an earlier study by Mehta and Plaza, from 1997, by analyzing 9,800 randomly selected images taken from 32 Usenet newsgroups between July 1995 and July 1996. The study concludes that an increasing percentage of pornographic images in Usenet come from commercially oriented sources and that commercial sources are more likely to post explicit images. Pornographic images containing themes that fall under most obscenity statutes are more likely to be posted by noncommercial sources. By examining the themes most commonly found in the sample, it is concluded that the vast majority of images contain legally permissible content. Only a small fraction of images contain pedophilic, bestiality, co-prophilic/urophilic, amputation and mutilation, and necrophilic themes.

Looking beyond history: the optics of German anthropology and the critique of humanism

Late nineteenth-century German anthropology had to compete for intellectual legitimacy with the established academic humanities ( Geisteswissenschaften), above all history. Whereas humanists interpreted literary documents to create narratives about great civilizations, anthropologists represented and viewed objects, such as skulls or artifacts, to create what they regarded as natural scientific knowledge about so-called ‘natural peoples’—colonized societies of Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas. Anthropologists thus invoked a venerable tradition that presented looking at objects as a more certain source of knowledge than reading texts. Visual representations, especially of the colonized, not only allowed anthropologists allegedly objective insight into humanity but also put them in direct contact with popular audiences of ethnographic spectacles, exotic photography, and even pornographic images. Anthropologists thus sought to create a peculiar kind of anthropological vision that both differentiated them from humanists as ‘objective’ natural scientists but also distinguished them from the leering ‘ Schaulust’ that they believed characterized popular consumption of exotic images. To do so they invented technologies of visual representation that eschewed the subject position figured by linear perspective. These novel optics dispensed with the leering subject posited by popular spectacles and the knowing subject posited by humanism and created an anti-humanist form of knowledge.

Dionysos à l’œuvre

«Dionysos at work » Given a dualism supposed to set erotic images against pornographic images, what is oblique against what comes straightforwardly, the high and the low, what is univocal against what is ambiguous or equivocal, erotic photography is herein conceptualised as a space for breaking and tearing. Taking into account the apollinian and the dionysiac, two nietzschean categories, it has been theorized that the erotic tension at the heart of the image would result from the shakiness of the beautiful apollinian form and from the intrusion of the dionysiac. Erotic photography would therefore form a their line between purely apollinian images (Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton) and purely dionysiac images in front of which language tends to disintegrate (the so-called Supplice des cent morceaux photography which haunted Georges Bataille). This has paved the way for some work on the forms of the androgyne, the transvestite, the sadistised body or the ill-formed body. But the opposition between eroticism and pornography beeing far too conventional, one subsequently chose to break up the opposition between the high and the low in order to the envisage the possible contamination of eroticism by pornography. The work of Nobuyoshi Araki, more particularly Erotos, could therefore be considered as a visual equivalent of Bataille’ s Histoire de l’œil. One would hence witness a radical and perverse eroticization of the world and of experience.

Le «naked» comme image de l’obscénité : la porno-photo-graphie dans le champ des arts plastiques

«“Naked” as an image of obscenity : the pomo-photo-graphy in the Visual Arts » Pornography which is a phenomenon bom of an era of mass-produced images, seems to be include in the Visual Arts. Among others, artists like Koons, Fleischer and Mapplethorpe use it as it is usually, keeping the photographic images. Each one, with his original thinking which brings art and life together, shows how very small the difference existing is between erotic art, which tends to transcend obscenity, and popular pornography. What is the real difference between the two : the fluctuating interpretation of the public, a prey to its own prohibitions and, or, the technique of the representation of reality ? Does the proliferation of pornographic images reveal an increase in perverse attitude or does it result from contemporary behaviour based on excessive individualism, exagerated narcissism, the vaning of the reality of the Other through media pressure ?

An Image Blocking Neural System for Children on the Internet

This paper proposes an image blocking neural system on the Internet for children. The proposed system is used for discriminating an image whether it is a pornography or not. The system is composed of two phases. In the first phase, image segmente including naked human body are extracted from a target image using Munsell color order system. In the second phase, each of segments is classified into a pornography or others by using CombNet. In our simulation, 42 tested images are used and compressed to 12x24 pixel respectively are used. Our system can automatically discriminate the pornography images with 67% accuracy.

A Half-Dozen Rules for Securing Your Web Application

As more and more Web pages are created for fun and profit, more and more Web pages are being hacked for fun and profit. CIA officials were red-faced when their new-sprung Web page was found doctored with pornographic images and Nazi propaganda. The Social Security Administration put up a Web site that trivially could be coaxed to provide private information on any United States taxpayer. What about corporate America? Many corporate sites have been hacked, but companies try to keep these things quiet. As a computer security consultant for a Big Five Accounting firm, the author has seen plenty of corporate Web site missteps.

Sidestreets on the Information Superhighway: Paraphilias and Sexual Variations on the Internet

The anonymous, instantaneous, far-reaching nature of the Internet opens up new possibilities for paraphiles and others with unusual sexual preferences. While the amount of sexual material available on the Internet has been exaggerated, a variety of pornographic and sexual images and text does exist online. We discuss different possible methods for accessing such material and interacting with others, describing the range of possibilities with newsgroups, chat rooms, BBSs, and other electronic media. Next, we detail several actual cases in which the Internet was used by paraphiles to disperse and obtain material, as well as to interact with others for paraphilic fulfillment. What is our role, as sex educators, therapists, and researchers, in handling these situations? Each must decide for him/herself, but we should be aware of the advancing technology available and perhaps use it for our own solutions.