DOCSLIB.ORG

Submission for the Inquiry Into the Harm Being Done to Australian Children Through Access to Pornography on the Internet

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Submission for the Inquiry Into the Harm Being Done to Australian Children Through Access to Pornography on the Internet Jàguar Lacroix 9th March 2016 1 Submission for the Inquiry into the harm being done to Australian children through access to pornography on the internet Jàguar Lacroix MAPs, Grad. Dip. Psych., Grad Dip. Coun, ADOM Animal Rights, Human Rights Activist; Doctoral candidature pending (2016) Thank you for this opportunity to express my thoughts and ideas. It is my hope that they make a constructive contribution to the debate. Jàguar Lacroix 9th March 2016 2 Submission for the Inquiry into the harm being done to Australian children through access to pornography on the internet "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell When legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon (19931) wrote that, we live in a porn saturated world I thought she was exaggerating. Upon educating myself on this subject I find she could not have been more correct. In fact pornographic imagery is increasingly emulated in fashion, advertising, celebrity blogs and in all forms of media (please see appendix A. for examples). Soft porn has gone mainstream, one wonders if hardcore, now accessible by any smartphone in a free wi-fi zone is soon to follow? March 8th, International Women’s Day 2016: Having read all seventeen current submissions to the Submission for the Inquiry into the harm being done to Australian children through access to pornography on the internet, I find that little can be added to the recommendations of Professor Freda Briggs or the heartfelt concerns of mothers and parents; I have therefor chosen in this submission to focus on causation or what I perceive to be the sociological origins and outcomes of pornography production and consumption. I am doing this because I feel that many of you will be shocked by the easy access and content of violent forms of pornography online. I also find it quite hypocritical of a government to display concern about children’s viewing of pornography while announcing in the latest politically correct catchphrase to be “preventing domestic violence” through respect for women—when the prostitution of women and girls is legal in all but two states in Australia. Sexual access to a woman by buying the use of her body hardly promotes respect; the issue of prostituted persons "consent" will be covered later. Notwithstanding that all of these manifestations occur within a larger socio-historical context and the world. When we look at the immediate Australian society we find legalised prostitution, when we look at the larger world we see the rampant cruelty and sexual abuse of women and children, everywhere we see porn we see a loud message for both children and adults, that message for women and girls is: this is all you are worth—accept your status, for men and boys: this is all a woman or girl is worth—use her. 1 “Pornography makes the world a pornographic place… As society becomes saturated with pornography, what makes sexual arousal, and the nature of sex itself change” (MacKinnon, 1993, p. 25). Jàguar Lacroix 9th March 2016 3 What is Pornography For? In this paper, limited as it is in its scope I will first argue that pornography is just one of the symptoms of a predominantly privileged white-male-supremist mode of systemic oppression. Pornography supports the male-supremist system of oppression of those who do not benefit in any way from pornographies production and dissemination—women and children. Observing that the microcosm reflects the macrocosm, political forms of subjugation may be reflected in dictatorship in the family, for example in domestic violence, or the sexual abuse of children, just as social hierarchies mimic larger global politics - as can be seen in the macho posturing of Putin and previously Bush junior in his daddy pleasing role of world savior through a genocidal illegal war in Iraq2. Pornography is just one of the ways a masculine identity is constructed and reinforced through domination and entitlement to all the bodies below. i) Situating the adult porn industry as an effective arm of the patriarchy I will seek to describe a phenomenological investigation into pornography's destruction of humanistic values in social bonds and the sexual-spiritual dimension of intimate partner relationships. ii) The debate on how pornography affects children has been extensively covered in the previous submissions, therefore rather than repeat these viewpoints I will seek to look instead at the sociological structures that have brought about a world where sexually explicit material is accessible almost anywhere with just two clicks of a mouse or a few taps on a touchscreen. iii) I will argue that cybersex pornography is the predictable outcome at the nexus of patriarchy: the confluence of a mythic-infantile-male-domination-fantasy (infinite sex—immortal life), capitalism3 and digital technology creating a perfect triune storm for the ongoing abuse and erosion of the “right to human status” of women and children as a form of class discrimination. I will further posit a thread of deep fear of feminine power and sexuality identifiable in ancient and recorded history that drives the misogyny needed to produce and consume porn. iv) It will be argued that porn's unopposed force in the marketplace and representation of women and girls as consumable objects situates porn as a subversive and potent means of female oppression. 2 UNICEF and the Government of Iraq, Child and Maternal Mortality Survey, cited in John Pilger, New Rulers of the World, Verso, 2002. 3 In North America eighty percent of pornographic content is produced in the San Fernando area of Los Angeles. In 2001, 11,000 new hardcore videos were released (Jensen, 2007). 13,588 were released in 2005 (http://internet-filter- review.toptenreviews.com/internet-pornography-statistics.html). Jàguar Lacroix 9th March 2016 4 v) I will argue unapologetically that the pro-porn consumer's voice signals a sexual-spiritual disconnection—a fear of intimacy and a negation of the empathy required to call oneself human. Section 01 Panic Stations—How to Close the Stable Door After the Horse has Bolted Children online – EU and in Australia—79% of 5 to 8 year olds go online at home. In 2008, European Commission (EC) research indicated that, across the continent, 42% of children aged 6, and 52% of those aged 7, are internet users. The EC includes a range of nations (including those from the former Soviet bloc) that have only recently adopted the internet. The figures in early-adopter countries are much higher. In South Korea 92.5% of 3-9 year olds use the internet for an average of 8 – 9 hours per week, and this reflects their country’s status as the nation with the world’s greatest high-speed internet take-up (Jie, 2012). According to Gutnick et al (2011), the figures are different in the USA. While nearly 70% of 8 year olds go online everyday, about half of 5 year olds do so, and 25% of 3 year olds. The comparative Australian statistic indicates that 79% of 5 to 8 year olds go online at home (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2012). (Holloway, Green, & Brady, 2013, p. 2) In May 2013 the UK Office of the Children's Commissioner published a report entitled, "Basically... porn is everywhere" - A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the Effects that Access and Exposure to Pornography has on Children and Young People (Horvath, et al., 2013). The Office of the Children's Commissioner for England on its website called for “…urgent action to protect children from exposure to pornography” and: urgent action to develop children's resilience to pornography following a research report it commissioned which found that: a significant number of children access pornography; it influences their attitudes towards relationships and sex; it is linked to risky behaviour such as having sex at a younger age; and there is a correlation between holding violent attitudes and accessing more violent media. (http://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/news/we-call-urgent- action-protect-children-exposure-pornography) Two direct quotes from the subsequent report: Maggie Atkinson, Children's Commissioner for England: This report is based on an assessment of the available evidence. It points out the gaps in our knowledge as well as providing compelling evidence that exposure to pornography influences children's attitudes to relationships and sex. We are living at a time when violent and sadistic imagery is readily available to very young children, even if they do not go searching for it, their Jàguar Lacroix 9th March 2016 5 friends may show it to them or they may stumble on it whilst using the internet. We all have a duty to protect children from harm - it is one of their rights enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child - and the time has come for immediate and decisive action to do so. For years we have applied age restrictions to films at the cinema but now we are permitting access to far more troubling imagery via the internet. We do not fully understand the implications of this. It is a risky experiment to allow a generation of young people to be raised on a diet of pornography. Sue Berelowitz, Deputy Children's Commissioner for England: As part of our Inquiry into the sexual exploitation of children in gangs and groups we have seen that young perpetrators of sexual abuse describe their activity as ‘like having been in a porn film.' This report provides the evidence to support there being a high correlation between exposure to pornography and it influencing children's behaviour and attitudes. We cannot expect children to know that sexual violence is wrong unless we teach them so.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Pornography, Morality, and Harm: Why Miller Should Survive Lawrence
    File: 02-DIONNE-Revised.doc Created on: 3/12/2008 1:29 PM Last Printed: 3/12/2008 1:34 PM 2008] 611 PORNOGRAPHY, MORALITY, AND HARM: WHY MILLER SHOULD SURVIVE LAWRENCE Elizabeth Harmer Dionne∗ INTRODUCTION In 2003, a divided Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas1 declared that morality, absent third-party harm, is an insufficient basis for criminal legis- lation that restricts private, consensual sexual conduct.2 In a strongly worded dissent, Justice Scalia declared that this “called into question” state laws against obscenity (among others), as such laws are “based on moral choices.”3 Justice Scalia does not specifically reference Miller v. Califor- nia,4 the last case in which the Supreme Court directly addressed the issue of whether the government may suppress obscenity. However, if, as Justice Scalia suggests, obscenity laws have their primary basis in private morality, the governing case that permits such laws must countenance such a moral basis. The logical conclusion is that Lawrence calls Miller, which provides the legal test for determining obscenity, into question.5 ∗ John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Harvard Law School. Wellesley College (B.A.), University of Cambridge (M. Phil., Marshall Scholar), Stanford Law School (J.D.). The author thanks Professors Frederick Schauer, Thomas Grey, and Daryl Levinson for their helpful comments on this Article. She also thanks the editorial staff of GEORGE MASON LAW REVIEW for their able assistance in bringing this Article to fruition. 1 539 U.S. 558 (2003). 2 Id. at 571 (“The issue is whether the majority may use the power of the state to enforce these views on the whole society through operation of the criminal law.
    [Show full text]
  • Shari Cohn Sex Addiction Brochure
    Shari Cohn Chat Rooms…Cybersex… Online Affairs… MSSW, LCSW, SC How many people CSAT-Certified Sex Cyber Romance… have problems with Addiction Therapist Internet Sex… Cybersex? Online Pornography… Helping Individuals, Estimates are that about 15% of people in the Couples and Families Recover United States - men and women - using the Harmless Fun? Or A Internet for sexual purposes have problems From Internet Serious Problem For You with their cybersex activities. Sex Addiction Or Someone You Know? About 9 million of these users are sexually • addicted and another 15 million use cybersex in Therapy for Internet Sex Addiction/Cybersex Addiction risky ways and show signs of compulsivity. • Therapy for Partners/Spouses and Some of these cybersex users were already Families of Sex Addicts having preexisting problems with sex addiction before they went on the Internet for sexual Research based, focused therapy helps purposes, but for others their Internet sexual people who are struggling with sexual activity was the first time they showed any addiction and compulsivity to develop the life Shari Cohn signs of sexual addiction. competencies to be successful in recovery. MSSW, LCSW, SC, CSAT Seventy percent of all Internet adult content Support and services for spouses/partners Certified Sex Addiction Therapist sites are visited during the 9-5 workday. and families of sex addicts are critical to assist healing from the negative Internet sex is very powerful and potentially consequences of sex addiction. very destructive. The comparison has been made that cybersex is like the crack cocaine of In my Certified Sex Addiction Therapist the Internet. training, I was taught by Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • We Control It on Our End, and Now It's up to You" -- Exploitation, Empowerment, and Ethical Portrayals of the Pornography Industry Julie E
    Student Publications Student Scholarship Spring 2017 "We control it on our end, and now it's up to you" -- Exploitation, Empowerment, and Ethical Portrayals of the Pornography Industry Julie E. Davin Gettysburg College Follow this and additional works at: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship Part of the Film and Media Studies Commons, Gender and Sexuality Commons, and the Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Davin, Julie E., ""We control it on our end, and now it's up to you" -- Exploitation, Empowerment, and Ethical Portrayals of the Pornography Industry" (2017). Student Publications. 543. https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/543 This open access student research paper is brought to you by The uC pola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of The uC pola. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "We control it on our end, and now it's up to you" -- Exploitation, Empowerment, and Ethical Portrayals of the Pornography Industry Abstract Documentaries about pornography are beginning to constitute an entirely new subgenre of film. Big Hollywood names like James Franco and Rashida Jones are jumping on the bandwagon, using their influence and resources to invest in a type of audiovisual knowledge production far less mainstream than that in which they usually participate. The films that have resulted from this new movement are undoubtedly persuasive, no matter which side of the debate over pornography these directors have respectively chosen to represent. Moreover, regardless of the side(s) that audience members may have taken in the so-called “feminist porn debates,” one cannot ignore the rhetorical strength of the arguments presented in a wide variety of documentaries about pornography.
    [Show full text]
  • Clubscene-Jun83.Compressed.Pdf
    C") Q) 0: oCl!, Q) c Q) (J (J) ..c ::l G Q) c Q) (J (J) ..c ::l G C\I Q) 0> oCl!, CONTENTS 5'. \-EP-"t"'e.;. _ • .cLUB ·--<-'r~. ..6"CENE •• ISSUE #11 '•. \~:l<i ~ ·~ l.{. ~"oj' Club News Pg. 8 International Mr. Leather '83 Pg. 16 Whitewater Weekend V Pg.23 J. Colt Thomas-International Mr. Leather '83 Rocky Mountain Regional Rodeo Pg.30 Sponsored by Officers Club-Houston Photo by I.M.L. Studios Club Calendar Pg.36 FOR THE ANIMAL OFFICES Kansas City IN YOU .... 3317 Montrose, Sui.te 1087 Burt Holderman (816)587·9941 Houston, Texas 77006 Minneapolis (713) 529-7620 Dan VanGuilder. (612) 872·9218 New Orleans PUBLISHERS .... .Alan LipkinlDan Mciver Wally Sherwood (504) 368-1805 Phoenix EDITOR .. .. Gerry "G. w." Webster Jerry Zagst (602) 266-2287 ART DIRECTOR. .... .Ty Davison FEATURE WRITERS TYPESETTER .. .Lee Christensen Fledermaus (713) 466-3224 Courtesy of Dungeon Master REPRESENTATIVE·AT·LARGE .Bill Green OFFICIALLY SANCTION ED ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Mid·America Conference of Clubs Dan Mciver (713) 529-7620 ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL Atlanta Dale Scholes (404) 284·4370 The official views of this newsmagazine are expressed only in editorials. Opinions expressed in by-lined cot- (404) 872-0209 umns,letters and cartoons are those of the.wrlters and Chicago artists and do not necessarily represent the opinions Chuck Kiser. (312) 751·1640 of CLUB SCENE. Cleveland Publication of the name or photograph of any person or Tony Silwaru & organization in articles or advertising in CLUB SCENE Ron Criswell (216) 228·2631 is not to be construed as any indication of the sexual Corpus Christi orientation of such person or organization.
    [Show full text]
  • Fifty Shades of Leather and Misogyny: an Investigation of Anti- Woman Perspectives Among Leathermen
    University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Sociology Department, Faculty Publications Sociology, Department of 5-2020 Fifty Shades of Leather and Misogyny: An Investigation of Anti- Woman Perspectives among Leathermen Meredith G. F. Worthen University of Oklahoma, [email protected] Trenton M. Haltom University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub Part of the Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, and the Social Psychology and Interaction Commons Worthen, Meredith G. F. and Haltom, Trenton M., "Fifty Shades of Leather and Misogyny: An Investigation of Anti-Woman Perspectives among Leathermen" (2020). Sociology Department, Faculty Publications. 707. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub/707 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Sociology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology Department, Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. digitalcommons.unl.edu Fifty Shades of Leather and Misogyny: An Investigation of Anti-Woman Perspectives among Leathermen Meredith G. F. Worthen1 and Trenton M. Haltom2 1 University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA; 2 University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA Corresponding author — Meredith G. F. Worthen, University of Oklahoma, 780 Van Vleet Oval, KH 331, Norman, OK 73019; [email protected] ORCID Meredith G. F. Worthen http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6765-5149 Trenton M. Haltom http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1116-4644 Abstract The Fifty Shades books and films shed light on a sexual and leather-clad subculture predominantly kept in the dark: bondage, discipline, submission, and sadomasoch- ism (BDSM).
    [Show full text]
  • Gay Legal Theatre, 1895-2015 Todd Barry University of Connecticut - Storrs, [email protected]
    University of Connecticut OpenCommons@UConn Doctoral Dissertations University of Connecticut Graduate School 3-24-2016 From Wilde to Obergefell: Gay Legal Theatre, 1895-2015 Todd Barry University of Connecticut - Storrs, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations Recommended Citation Barry, Todd, "From Wilde to Obergefell: Gay Legal Theatre, 1895-2015" (2016). Doctoral Dissertations. 1041. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/1041 From Wilde to Obergefell: Gay Legal Theatre, 1895-2015 Todd Barry, PhD University of Connecticut, 2016 This dissertation examines how theatre and law have worked together to produce and regulate gay male lives since the 1895 Oscar Wilde trials. I use the term “gay legal theatre” to label an interdisciplinary body of texts and performances that include legal trials and theatrical productions. Since the Wilde trials, gay legal theatre has entrenched conceptions of gay men in transatlantic culture and influenced the laws governing gay lives and same-sex activity. I explore crucial moments in the history of this unique genre: the Wilde trials; the British theatrical productions performed on the cusp of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act; mainstream gay American theatre in the period preceding the Stonewall Riots and during the AIDS crisis; and finally, the contemporary same-sex marriage debate and the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). The study shows that gay drama has always been in part a legal drama, and legal trials involving gay and lesbian lives have often been infused with crucial theatrical elements in order to legitimize legal gains for LGBT people.
    [Show full text]
  • Jews Control U.S.A., Therefore the World – Is That a Good Thing?
    Jews Control U.S.A., Therefore the World – Is That a Good Thing? By Chairman of the U.S. based Romanian National Vanguard©2007 www.ronatvan.com v. 1.6 1 INDEX 1. Are Jews satanic? 1.1 What The Talmud Rules About Christians 1.2 Foes Destroyed During the Purim Feast 1.3 The Shocking "Kol Nidre" Oath 1.4 The Bar Mitzvah - A Pledge to The Jewish Race 1.5 Jewish Genocide over Armenian People 1.6 The Satanic Bible 1.7 Other Examples 2. Are Jews the “Chosen People” or the real “Israel”? 2.1 Who are the “Chosen People”? 2.2 God & Jesus quotes about race mixing and globalization 3. Are they “eternally persecuted people”? 3.1 Crypto-Judaism 4. Is Judeo-Christianity a healthy “alliance”? 4.1 The “Jesus was a Jew” Hoax 4.2 The "Judeo - Christian" Hoax 4.3 Judaism's Secret Book - The Talmud 5. Are Christian sects Jewish creations? Are they affecting Christianity? 5.1 Biblical Quotes about the sects , the Jews and about the results of them working together. 6. “Anti-Semitism” shield & weapon is making Jews, Gods! 7. Is the “Holocaust” a dirty Jewish LIE? 7.1 The Famous 66 Questions & Answers about the Holocaust 8. Jews control “Anti-Hate”, “Human Rights” & Degraded organizations??? 8.1 Just a small part of the full list: CULTURAL/ETHNIC 8.2 "HATE", GENOCIDE, ETC. 8.3 POLITICS 8.4 WOMEN/FAMILY/SEX/GENDER ISSUES 8.5 LAW, RIGHTS GROUPS 8.6 UNIONS, OCCUPATION ORGANIZATIONS, ACADEMIA, ETC. 2 8.7 IMMIGRATION 9. Money Collecting, Israel Aids, Kosher Tax and other Money Related Methods 9.1 Forced payment 9.2 Israel “Aids” 9.3 Kosher Taxes 9.4 Other ways for Jews to make money 10.
    [Show full text]
  • Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend 2018 Mr. MAL 2018 Contest Judges
    Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend 2018 Mr. MAL 2018 Contest Judges Martel Brown Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather 2017 Continuing the Pittsburgh legacy, Martel became the 5th Mr. Pittsburgh Leather Fetish to win the title of Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather. As a proud member of The Three Rivers Leather Club he has made it his mission to bridge the gap between the sometimes-distant subcultures within the gay community. In this way, he embraces his individuality in such a way that others are encouraged to find their own truth in their kinkster identities. Leading by example, your reigning Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather has called out to the leather community to recognize how their umbrella extends to all marginalized kinksters that we all belong under an umbrella of leather and fetish as a community of sex-positive persons that embrace diversity while building a mosaic of micro communities within it that honor our differences, yet recognize our best traditions. Once you see his smile, you'll feel the weight of his sincerity and his promise to break down stereotypes, breakthrough barriers of prejudice, and to support the mentoring and creation of tomorrow's kinkster leaders that follow in all our courageous past leader's footsteps. Ralph Bruneau International Mr. Leather 2017 Ralph Bruneau competed at IML as Mr. GNI Leather 2016 representing Gay Naturists International, the largest naturist organization in the world. He began his leather journey in 1974 at the legendary Mineshaft in NYC. In his first career, he was an actor on Broadway and on television creating the role of Mike Doonesbury in the Broadway musical Doonesbury and appearing on TV in shows from soaps to Seinfeld.
    [Show full text]
  • Facts and Figures | Stop Porn Culture 28/03/2014
    Facts and Figures | Stop Porn Culture 28/03/2014 Stop Porn Culture dedicated to challenging the porn industry and the harmful culture it perpetuates Home Aboutt Acttiion Allertts Eventts Resources GAIL DINES • SPC EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS • PRESS • CONTACT US • VOLUNTEERS SIGN-UP • Facts and Figures Our Culture is Porn Culture (U.S. and International Figures) There are over 68 million daily searches for pornography in the United States. Thats 25% of all daily searches (IFR, 2006). The sex industry is largest and most profitable industry in the world. “It includes street prostitution, brothels, ‘massage parlors’, strip clubs, human trafficking for sexual purposes, phone sex, child and adult pornography, mail order brides and sex tourism – just to mention a few of the most common examples.” (Andersson et al, 2013) In 2010, 13% of global web searches were for sexual content. This does not include P2P downloads and torrents. (Ogas & Gaddam) Pornhub receives over 1.68 million visits per hour. (Pornhub, 2013) Globally, teen is the most searched term. A Google Trends analysis indicates that searches for “Teen Porn” have more than tripled between 2005-2013, and teen porn was the fastest-growing genre over this period. Total searches for teen-related porn reached an estimated 500,000 daily in March 2013, far larger than other genres, representing approximately one-third of total daily searches for pornographic web sites. (Dines, 2013) The United States is the top producer of pornographic dvds and web material; the second largest is Germany: they each produce in excess of 400 porn films for dvd every week. Internet porn in the UK receives more traffic than social networks, shopping, news and media, email, finance, gaming and travel.
    [Show full text]
  • Prostitution, Trafficking, and Cultural Amnesia: What We Must Not Know in Order to Keep the Business of Sexual Exploitation Running Smoothly
    Prostitution, Trafficking, and Cultural Amnesia: What We Must Not Know in Order To Keep the Business of Sexual Exploitation Running Smoothly Melissa Farleyt INTRODUCTION "Wise governments," an editor in the Economist opined, "will accept that. paid sex is ineradicable, and concentrate on keeping the business clean, safe and inconspicuous."' That third adjective, "inconspicuous," and its relation to keeping prostitution "ineradicable," is the focus of this Article. Why should the sex business be invisible? What is it about the sex industry that makes most people want to look away, to pretend that it is not really as bad as we know it is? What motivates politicians to do what they can to hide it while at the same time ensuring that it runs smoothly? What is the connection between not seeing prostitution and keeping it in existence? There is an economic motive to hiding the violence in prostitution and trafficking. Although other types of gender-based violence such as incest, rape, and wife beating are similarly hidden and their prevalence denied, they are not sources of mass revenue. Prostitution is sexual violence that results in massive tMelissa Farley is a research and clinical psychologist at Prostitution Research & Education, a San Francisco non-profit organization, She is availabe at [email protected]. She edited Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress in 2003, which contains contributions from important voices in the field, and she has authored or contributed to twenty-five peer-reviewed articles. Farley is currently engaged in a series of cross-cultural studies on men who buy women in prostitution, and she is also helping to produce an art exhibition that will help shift the ways that people see prostitution, pornography, and sex trafficking.
    [Show full text]
  • Internet Addiction: a Review of the First Twenty Years
    Psychiatria Danubina, 2017; Vol. 29, No. 3, pp 260-272 https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2017.260 Review © Medicinska naklada - Zagreb, Croatia INTERNET ADDICTION: A REVIEW OF THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS Martin Mihajlov1 & Lucija Vejmelka2 1Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Economics, Skopje, Macedonia 2University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Department of Social Work, Zagreb, Croatia received: 9.3.2017; revised: 3.5.2017; accepted: 12.7.2017 SUMMARY Easy access to communication and information technologies has increased our dependence on technology for various aspects of our lives. Nevertheless, this remarkable growth of Internet Usage has been inextricably paired with a rise of excessive and dysfunctional Internet use. Conceptualized around 1996, a few years after the inception of the World Wide Web, Internet addiction has developed into a global issue influencing varying segments of the population at different levels. Despite heated debates on its addictive nature, consensus is emerging regarding the existence of this problematic behavior. In this paper we provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on Internet addiction in last 20 years. Purpose of this paper is to present crucial findings on Internet addiction to health profession. Besides numerous benefits of Internet use, the virtual environment brings various risks in every age group. The Internet is very significant in the everyday activities of children and youth and professional interventions with this age group should be specific considering their developmental characteristics. Exposure to online risks can have long-lasting and intense negative effects. Effective programs in prevention and treatment should include a multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach. Detail review of the symptomatology, diagnosis model an possibilities of treatment can be multiple beneficial to the health professionals and other helping professions due to actual needs for interventions in the field of the internet addiction treatment.
    [Show full text]
  • The Wooster Voice Yuri Brrra
    The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1991-2000 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 4-6-2000 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 2000-04-06 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 2000-04-06" (2000). The Voice: 1991-2000. 246. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000/246 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 1991-2000 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 66 's tough to make predictions, especially Thursday, about the future. Yuri Brrra April 6, 2000 The Wooster Voice 99 Volume CXVI, Issue 22 America's Oldest Weekly College Newspaper www. wooster. eduvoice Africa week fashions New curriculum sparks controversy Lack of religion requirement incites debate forfaculty, trustees Naomi Kresge members of the Board." After be- Trustees said before the faculty" News Editor ing questioned about potential because a "significant change" in The potential elimination of a re- trustee reaction to a potentially ab- a dimension of student life could ligious studies requirement took a sent religious studies requirement, lead the Board to request a review central place in Monday evening's Durham emphasized that no faculty of the proposed change. 'The Presi- Faculty Committee meeting discus- vote has been taken to approve a dent decides when it is a significant sion of the recently proposed cur- course of action and that "you're enough issue," Strickler said.
    [Show full text]