Violence and Degradation as Themes in “Adult” Videos

Bibliographic Data

ID13658014
AuthorsDavid F Duncan (0000-0002-2806-5864, Illinois Primary Health Care Association, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume69
Issue1
Pages239-240
Publication date1991-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1991.69.1.239
PMID1961802
OpenAlexW2091636711
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited1

Videocassettes have become the dominant medium for pornography. One previous content analysis examined the prevalence of violence in such videos. The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1986) has asserted that nonviolent pornography depicting degradation produces harm similar to that from violent pornography. Content analysis of a 10% random sample (n = 50) of the videos displayed in the "adult" section of a video store showed that 13.6% of the scenes in the videos contained violent acts and 18.2% contained degrading acts

Commission · Content (measure theory · Content analysis · Criminology · Harm · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Pornography · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology