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Ponography
This document discusses pornography and its commercialization. It defines pornography and describes its prevalence as a business. It outlines different types of pornography including softcore, hardcore, fetish, and child pornography. It discusses how the porn industry earns money through magazine and video sales as well as advertisements. The document also covers the psychological and social effects of pornography on adults and its potential addictive nature. Finally, it examines the laws around pornography in Sri Lanka, defining obscenity and outlining punishments prescribed by law.
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- 2. Commercialization of sexuality •- Pornography • - Prostitution
- 5. This work isbased on a study of pornography, rates and other information on this theme. Its theoretical framework based on the status of pornography as a business and how often it is used. In other hand, we know the psychological, involving social, both those who do it as who sees it. This theme is picked education as something that our classmates can learn to define what pornography is the display of sexual content in the form obscene with intent to arouse or promote pornography. For others is a distortion of sexuality and negative effects, as it takes an individual to be a sex addict. • This work is based on a study of pornography, • rates and other information on this theme. • Its theoretical framework based on the status of pornography as a business and how often it is used. • In other hand, we know the psychological, involving social, both those who do it as who sees it. • This theme is picked education as something that our classmates can learn to define what pornography is the display of sexual content in the form obscene with intent to arouse or promote pornography. • For others is a distortion of sexuality and negative effects, as it takes an individual to be a sex addict.
- 6. What is it? •Pornography is the portrayal of explicit sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual excitement and erotic satisfaction. • Porn can be found in a huge variety of ways. It can be found through books, magazines, Internet and even in video games (ex. Grand Theft Auto 3), sculptures and even in paintings. • In pornography the movie actors are called porn-stars and picture models are called porn-models. Pornography is often censored because of its obscene content.
- 7. Types of pornography Softcore Hard core
- 8. Types of pornography Thistypes have also sonme sub-categories or sub-genres: the category of participants, such as: • Amateur pornography : not professional • Fetish pornography : sexual arousal a person receives from an object. • Sexual-orientation-based pornography (heterosexual pornography; gay pornography; lesbian pornography; bisexual pornography) • Orgy pornography • Race-oriented pornography (e.g. Asian, black, Latino, interracial) • Reality pornography : documentary style • Soft pornography • Voyeurism, involving, for example, use of hidden camera or "upskirt" photography.
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- 10. Child pornography •Child pornographyis perhaps one of the most consistent problems in society worldwide. •It this it is an abomination and should be punished even harder than it is. •Children don't deserve that a sick adult do such things to them. •It is even impressive how there are times that law doesn't find guilty people that have been caught with child pornography, this is what this report is about.
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- 18. • Sale ofmagazines - Playboy and Hustler • Sale of videos - Vivid Video • Advertisements on porn websites
- 19. Side advertisement inweb sites
- 20. • The pornographyindustry has been considered influential in deciding format wars in media, including being a factor in the VHS vs. • Beta max format war (the video tape format war) • In the Blu-ray vs. • • HD DVD format war (the high-def format war)
- 21. • 89% ofporn is created in the U.S. • $2.84 billion in revenue was generated from U.S. porn sites in 2006 • $89/second is spent on porn • 72% of porn viewers are men • 260 new porn sites go online daily
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- 30. • In somecultures, such as Western European nations and the US, making or owning pornography is legal. • It is legal as long as all of the people in the pornography are older than a certain age. • It must also be sold to people above a certain age. • Often this age is 18 years.
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- 32. THE LAW INSrilanaka
- 33. In many countries,such as Srilanka, India, Indonesia, Iran, and Pakistan, making or owning pornography is a crime.
- 34. Obscenity According to thelaw in Srilanaka, anything that is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest or if its effect is to deprave and corrupt persons would be considered to be ‘obscene’.
- 36. (i) The srilankanPenal Code, 1860 (‘SPC’) (ii) The Information Technology Act, 2000 (‘IT Act’).
- 38. • Sells • advertises •lets to hire • know about • distributes • publicly exhibits • In any manner puts into circulation • makes • Produces • has in his possession • Exports • Import Usage of pornography
- 40. • • any obscene •book • pamphlet • paper, • drawing • painting • representation, or figure or any other obscene object whatsoever
- 42. Obscenity under theInformation Technology Act Section 67 of the IT Act lays down the law that obscenity is an offence when it is published or transmitted or caused to be published in any electronic form. Sri Lankan rules
- 43. deal with computersystems and networks, intangible medium of the internet and electronic communication devices such as the cellular phone handsets
- 45. Punishments prescribed underthe Acts for obscenity(IPC) first conviction with imprisonment (simple or rigorous) for a term which may extend to two years, and with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, in the event of a second or subsequent convictions, with imprisonment (simple or rigorous) for a term which may extend to five years, and also with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.
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- 50. •This link aboveyou can find information about fighting pornography. •Here you can find help if you or someone near you has an addiction. •Hope you take a look at it and enjoy from this information. Fighting against porn
- 51. CONCLUTION • Clear conceptof what is pornography and the right way as it should have sex without hurting others. • There no doubt that pornography is a social problem that affects us all as we are all exposed to it through different ways. • Pornography is certainly a topic that not everyone likes to talk, but it is a reality that we all as members of a society must face, • Not only for the addict who spends hours watching pornographic material, but also for the thousands of million people each year are sexually exploited. • We criticize pornography but we think the potential suffering that both women and children suffer for the holding that deception
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