Politics and Pornography: Strange Bedfellows

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This paper describes the emergence of different types of pornography since its inception and analyzes how it has been regulated and its affect on society as a whole.

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"The first definition found of pornography dates from 1806 (Hunt, 1996). This writer divided what we call pornography into three categories, two of them not related to sex: religious, political and moral. Because of pornography's emergence as a vehicle for criticism and its production by the most radical thinkers in a time of great change, it was viewed as a threat to the status quo, which was its authors intent (Hunt, 1996). Pornography began more as attacks on those in power than attacks on the concept of "decency." Thus, as Hunt reports, the history of pornography rapidly became the history of attempts to regulate pornography."

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