No one knows the true size of the early-twenty-first century porn industry. Kassia Wosick, a New Mexico State University sociologist, estimates the globally porn market at $97 billion in 2015, with the U.S. revenues at $10 and $12 billion; IBISWorld projected that by the pre-Covid 202...
Early porn film producers adopted the new technology and used it to circumvent federal Comstock laws prohibiting "obscene" materials from the U.S. mail. Amateur and semi-commercial pornographers screened "stag" films in noncommercial, semi- private venues operating throughout the country, at ...
Peep shows as the most lucrative portion of the pornography industry; Peep show performers; Customers; Variety of peep shows; Reasons for men's attraction to peep shows and pornography; Effects of pornography; Difficulty in enforcing state obscenity laws; Pornography industry's ties to organized cri...
There is also a thriving genre of underground pornography in Japan (called urabon) that ignores these censorship laws; it has become especially prevalent on the Internet, as there are no mechanisms in place to prevent its transmission from Japanese nationals to the outside world. On November 1,...
On November 1, 1999, Japan introduced laws to outlaw child pornography in an attempt to converge with the U.S. and other western countries. [cite news url = http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/05/18/kiddie_web_porn_banned/ title = Child porn banned in Japan author = Tim Richardson ...
Never- theless, she and her colleagues have said that the harm porno- graphy is said to do to women would justify such action. Freedom of speech, they say, is a right that only the powerful have access to anyway, and the First Amendment or similar laws only protect their power.7 展开...
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Currently, only two states have criminal laws that offer protection against such conduct, and there is no federal criminal law that directly addresses it. Both state and federal criminal laws are necessary to address non-consensual pornography. State criminal laws are necessary to address conduct ...
2942Accesses 2Altmetric Abstract Both by international and national laws aim to shield and protect children everywhere from premature sex. However, some argue that historically and all over the globe children have been objects of sexual fantasy and exploitation. The idea that children should be protec...