Sexual Victimization and Sex For Sale

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Sexual Victimization andSex For Sale

• Chapters 19 20
• Lecture 23
• Psyc 1633

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Child Sexual Abuse

• Any form of sexual contact can be seen as abuse,
  as legally, children are unable to consent.
• incest sexual relations with a relative
• pedophilia or molestation - with a non-relative

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Aftermath of Child Sexual Abuse

• most severe when abuse was violent, intrusive, of
  long duration, and committed by family or friend
• often affects intimate adult relationships
• variety of consequences
• acting out
• younger vs. older kids
• regressive behaviors
• signs of posttraumatic stress disorder
• boys - externalize problems
• girls - internalize problems

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Characteristics of Sex Offenders

• most are male and known to the child
• arrested pedophiles - shy, lonely, moralistic,
  socially inadequate
• unarrested may look like non-pedophiles
• many were sexually victimized themselves
• difficult to profile
• To find them in your neighborhood
• http//216.140.183.67/default.cfm

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Preventing Child Sexual Abuse

• Early education of boys and girls
• simple communication about
• the right to say no
• okay vs. not okay touching
• how to avoid coercion
• the importance of telling a trusted adult
• build confidence, not fear
• include positive aspects of mutually shared
  sexual contact

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Sex For Sale

• Pornography and Prostitution

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Class Definition of Obscenity
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Pornography and Obscenity

• Pornography - (textbook definition) - Visual or
  written material used for sexual arousal
• Obscenity -
• U.S. Supreme Court criteria
• dominant theme appeals to prurient interest in
  sex
• patently offensive to contemporary community
• without serious literary, artistic, political or
  scientific value

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Studies on Pornography

• 1970 Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
• No significant long-lasting changes in behavior
• recommended the repeal of all adult pornography
  laws
• 1986 Meese Commission
• violent pornography causes sexual aggression
  toward women
• degrading pornography ? acceptance of rape
• nonviolent, non-degrading erotica considered
  destructive of social mores
• recommended vigorous law enforcement and
  prosecution of obscenity

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Journal 5 - Effects of Pornography

• List at least two ways in which pornography
  negatively affects women.
• Then list two arguments that suggest there is a
  positive effect or no effect of pornography on
  women.

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Characteristics of Consumers

• usually white, middle-aged, middle-class, and
  married
• reasons for demand
• no intimacy or commitment
• techniques a regular partner won't permit
• no risk of rejection
• occasional johns -
• habitual johns -
• compulsive johns -

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For Next Class

• Group presentations next time
• Intro Group (Jan 18-27, Chapters 1 - 3)
• Biological Basis Group (Feb 1-8, Chapters 4-6)
• Sexual Behavior Group (Feb 17-Mar 7, Chapters
  7-10)
• Following class period
• Sexuality and the Life Cycle Group
• Sexual Problems Group
• Social Issues Group