Essay Archive - Murray Davis' Smut, Erotic Reality/Obscene Ideology
Murray Davis' Smut, Erotic Reality/Obscene Ideology
In the book Smut, Erotic Reality/ Obscene Ideology , by Murray Davis
(1983), the author expresses the idea that the best source for studying human
sexuality objectively is "soft core", rather than “hard core” pornography.
(Davis p. xix). The purpose of this paper is to critique Davis's claim and to
study what understanding of human sexuality someone might have if they used some
other resource that is available today, in this case the Internet.
Davis argues that , "hard core pornography is usually more abstract and
less explicit than soft-core pornog....
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