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How fictional is pornography

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4079532
AutoresAnne Mcglynn (0000-0003-0386-2039, University of Edinburgh, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen16
Número4
Fecha de publicación2021-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12721
OpenAlexW3134938362
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas38

Many pornographic works seem to count as works of fiction. This apparent fact has been thought to have important implications for ongoing controversies about whether some pornography carries problematic messages and so influences the attitudes (and perhaps even the behaviour) of its audience. In this study, I explore the claim that pornographic works are fictional and the significance that this claim has for these issues, with a particular focus on pornographic films. Two related morals will emerge. First, we need to pay attention not merely to whether entire pornographic works should be classified as fictional, but to the way that pornographic fictions (like fictional works more generally) have both fictional and non-fictional elements. Second, we have to understand the ways that pornographic works can blur the lines between fiction and non-fiction, misleading their audiences into taking their fictional elements to be revealing truths about non-fictional reality. In the case of pornographic films, we will examine how a pornographic fiction can be portrayed by people having sex on camera, and the ways in which this portrayal can mislead viewers about sex in the non-fictional world

Aesthetics · Art · Fictional universe · Literature · Narrative · Pornography · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law in Society and Culture · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology