Essays Tagged: "pornographic material"
Internet Censorship
er certain alternative newsgroups on the Internet. The specific groups, ones containing obscene and pornographic material, have been censored by several Canadian universities. Targeted groups include: ... he user; nobody is under any obligation to view material that they do not wish to. Considering that pornographic and sexually explicit material are available in most libraries, universities should not ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Origions of the art of Asian Taiko drumming. including summary and how it can be related today.
and more frequency the newspapers are reporting instances of school children distributing disks of pornographic images which they have downloaded from the net and recently a university student was fo ... ly explicit pictures. Towson State has also included a warning on their home page that there may be pornographic material on the Internet. Pornographic material is not the only material to be found on ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Censorship, and the way it effects our everyday lives.
Censorship - The debateCensorship of pornographic material of all types is not a new phenomenon and has been debated nearly every time a ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
Why have feminist activists and writers confronted pornography and what obstacles or resistance have they faced?
aphy; the link between pornography and violence within society, the objectification of the woman in pornographic material, the effects pornographic material has on everyday women, child pornography, r ... en, as a whole view themselves to be the dominant sex and women the passive. This is evident in the pornographic industry, where women are depicted in passive and vulnerable situations and also often ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
The Internet: A network of Controversies Exploring the problems and solutions of offensive content on the Internet
Each day thousands of children are exposed to pornographic images and video on the Internet and the number continues to rise. Almost 90 percent of ... es to rise. Almost 90 percent of children aged from eight to sixteen years old have been exposed to pornographic material, either intentionally or accidentally while playing games or doing homework. T ... eir own country's laws. For example, certain countries such as the Netherlands allow teens to be in pornographic photographs and videos at the age of sixteen, instead of the more widely accepted age o ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Is Pornography A Threat To The Freedom of Women?
erous studies to promote violence against women. This is mainly due to the fact the men, in viewing pornographic material, feel in control of women's sexual behaviour, and as a result begin this pursu ... begin this pursuit of women's sexuality themselves. Even when considering material of the slightest pornographic nature, it can strongly be said that portraying women as passive sex objects would enco ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
Jacobson Vs. United States Supreme Court
son's Guilt.During the time the nude publications were ordered by Jacobson the act of viewing child pornographic material was permitted, or in Jacobson's case - not yet attended to. Subsequently, the ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases
Sexual Harrasment in the workplace
ging in conversation with obvious sexual overtones. The use of company computers to view or forward pornographic material from the Internet is also deemed offensive, and therefore not allowed in a wor ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Negative Effects of Pornography
erage annual income of about $8 billion and is overall worth $57 billion. They sell a wide range of pornographic material such as videos, magazines, books, and certain devices. This material is relati ... ch about $50 million. Nine-hundred theaters show porn movies and about fifteen-thousand stores sell pornographic material, which out numbers the amount of McDonalds in the country.There are quite ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Prison
s they commit, they are treated unusually well. They have access to television, training equipment, pornographic material, and more. Often, there is not enough work to go around, resulting in excessiv ... its), less than 40 hours a week of work, unmonitored phone calls, in-cell television, possession of pornographic material, instruction or training equipment for body building, or dress other than what ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Pornography
ether specific depictions are art or smut, good or bad, innocuous or harmful. People often label as pornographic material that violates their own moral standards and use the terms artistic or erotic f ... in neither full nudity nor explicit sexual acts. Indeed, this material is often not even considered pornographic.Some of the explicit material (15%-33% depending on the study), shows men in power over ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
INTERNET CENSORSHIP
last thing someone wants is to type in a web site, searching for some information on fitness, and a pornographic web site pop up. "If there ever was an invention that promised instant access to all ki ... eople use the Internet to enjoy their leisure time and they should not be bombarded with derogatory pornographic material. Children under the age of 18 should not be allowed to use the Internet becaus ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Roth V. United States
statute. For the purpose of this paper, Roth's publishing company can be looked at as a supplier of pornographic material. That is the reason Mr. Roth was convicted of 4-counts of mailing obscene mate ... us. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest." (Pornographic Myths) Those were his exact words on the subject. Still, what does that mean? An opinio ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
Protecting Children Online
for Britney Spears using file swapping service Aimster, 70% of resulted files contain some sort of pornographic material (Sanders 2001).Instant messaging is another popular internet tool that is bene ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Sexual Harassment
ging in conversation with obvious sexual overtones. The use of company computers to view or forward pornographic material from the Internet is also deemed offensive, and therefore, not allowed in the ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
System of inquiry
ed local hires who were inappropriately using Government computers to download, view and distribute pornographic material.The code of ethics for Government employees (local hire or American staff) ser ... it was therefore turned over to the justice department however it along with the scandal involving pornographic viewing and downloads could have been considered by an inquiry-focused group.The Harvar ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Child Pornography
ountry. Wilkins argues fallacys about there is multiple ways of preventing children to access pornographic material on the internet. Wilkins suggestion is to put the computer in a well-traveled ... s that Time Magazine did a story that alleging 83. 5 percent of all internet images are pornographic (pg199).My internet source I found for this topic was extremely disturbing. According t ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Are the Dangers of Internet Child Pornography Exaggerated?
ountry. Wilkins argues fallacys about there is multiple ways of preventing children to access pornographic material on the internet. Wilkins suggestion is to put the computer in a well-traveled ... s that Time Magazine did a story that alleging 83. 5 percent of all internet images are pornographic (pg199).My internet source I found for this topic was extremely disturbing. According t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
include non-contact activities, such as involving children in looking at, or in the production of, pornographic material or watching sexual activities, or encouraging children to behave in sexually i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
Pornography: Moral, Ethical or Legal Issue?
i-billion dollar industry that has a rising existence in today's society. They sell a wide range of pornographic material such as videos, magazines, books, and certain devices. This material is relati ... as cyber porn). They are able to find sites where they can download and virtually view any type of pornographic material such as hard core pictures, movies, online chats, and even live sex acts. This ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology