Joking of course haha. In the subject of Leisure Concept, I thought of an interesting argument on the topic of 'The DarkSide of Leisure", sub-topic: Internet Pornography, so I thought many of my student would probably argue the same thing, that why I take a different approaches of argument, into more interesting aspect of the internet pornography "Is animated Pornography Morally Acceptable: A Reflective Paper".
My lecturer loves the paper, that he even asked me to do further researches.
I am not a good writer, I have to thank my dear friend for helping me :)
I just feel a little proud of my achievement when my ideas was taken into interests compare many other student.
Here is the assignment below:
Is Animated Pornography Morally Acceptable: A Reflective
Paper
With the advent
of information and communication technologies such as the Internet, the
discourse of pornography has dramatically taken centerstage, not to mention has
become a heated topic not only among the digital film industries but also among
the academicians. Research shows that 28,258 internet users are viewing
pornography every second (Lecture notes, 2012). Not only that, the internet
pornography has gained larger revenues compared with multi-national companies
such as Microsoft (ibid). On internet pornography, anime or animated porns are becoming more popular than the actual
ones. Animated
pornographic characters are drawn in attractive ways of images that are
appealing and ideally beautiful and sexy, giving satisfactory looks to the
viewer. Critics, however, argue that while pornography to some extent is good
and legal, the animated ones use pervert images of under-age characters. This reflective paper looks into the moral issues of animated
pornography or whether it is acceptable or not by the society.
There
are pluralistic views on this topic. Many people find animation pornography
acceptable, pointing out that it is nothing but a form of leisure, which can
result in self gratification. One person has quoted on the internet blog that,
“I don’t like real porns; it makes me
feel strange because they’re real people… I hate seeing their faces. I guess
it’s because it makes it personal” (Onision.net). The issue
apparently, based on the quotation above, is on the images. Some prefer
animated character images over the real ones. In anime, one can create an ideal
image of his/her desire. Specific body parts and sexual positions can be
tricked and emphasized to please either the creator’s or audience’s desire.
Some people think that one’s choice for anime over real ones can be either out
of his fetish in it or just out of his love for animated art. They look at
animated cartoon pornography as a piece of art, or as an expression of one’s
sexual behaviour in comic form. Another blogger pointed out “my opinion is that Hentai (Japanese animated
adult theme) is a pure fantasy and that there are no harm made; it is
acceptable” (ibid). What the blogger was trying to drive
at is that there are no identities involved in the act. Hence, the issue of any
harms and demoralization is unlikely to happen. An example of animated
cartoon that was loved and generally accepted by the society despite the
exposure of some sexual scenes was the one in the US called Betty Boop (see
Appendices).
On
the contrary, animated porns are said to be immorally upright. One comment from
an anonymous source stated that most of these types of porns involve under-age
characters showing no decency and morality (createdebate.com). He added that it
can be akin to the concept of child pornography. It can encourage paedophilia.
Even if there are no real people involved in it, but the message and images put
across can create a wrong motivation and attitude to the viewers. The
increasing reported news on raping (especially on child and women) can be a
result of this. Since pornography industry started to explode in mid-1990s,
survey showed that 69.8 percent of women have been “verbally coerced” into
unwanted sex, and in UK 2006 there is as much as 33 percent of all women said
that they been forced into sex (http://english.ohmynews.com)
While
I agree with some people saying that animated porns are nothing but a form of
leisure and creative expression of one’s sexual desires, I however contest that
they should not be merely understood and analyzed in the context of art and
self expression. Leisure, when not managed well, can cause deviant behaviour (Bramham,
2002). It can result in socio-psychological effects, so to speak. Bramham said
there are three types of abnormal forms or deviant kind of leisure. They are invasive,
mephitic and wild leisure. Invasive refers to people associated with self,
usually the loner who unable to build relationship, and alienated, fantasies
are mostly associated with, especially with the option of animated pornography.
Mephitic tendencies according to Bramham are the pursuit that accepted as
morally abhorrent or harms to others, such as scene of aggression, abuse,
pleasure in dominating over victims, paedophilia, content violence serial of
killing, and rape. Wild tendency refers to behaviour that pushes limits of
experience over the edge for personal gratification or pleasure. Example of
which is Gang rape scene.
With
the easy access to Internet, children are more likely to be the victims of
animated porns. Children love images and arts that animated porns use. According
to the statistics the average age of a child’s first exposure to pornography is
11, and 90 percent of children ages between 8-16 have viewed pornography online
(internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com). Children may have the idea that it
is normal behaviour of those sexual acts.
I
strongly support the legalisation in Australia against child pornography (maybe
it be animated or not). According to the Custom Media Release 2007 (http://customs.gov.au), a person can
be found guilty for importing child pornography and anime pornography depicting
sexual violence. Policy makers must review all of these cartoon films released
to the public. A case was already found using famous the Simpson character to
showcase sexual acts.
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References
Bramham, 2002, 'Rojek, the sociological
imagination and leisure', Leisure studies, vol. 21, no. 3, p.221.
Veal, A. J. 1992, ‘Definitions of
leisure and recreation’, Leisure options: Australian journal of leisure and
recreation’, vol.2, no.4, p.44-48.
Perper, T & Cornog, M 2002,
"Eroticism for the masses: Japanese manga comics and their assimilation
into the U.S", Sexuality & Culture, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 3-126.
Onision 2011, sex & orientation,
viewed 24 May 2012,
Yawar, A 2006, ‘The End of Sex, Oh my
news, Korea, viewed 25 May 2012,
CreateDebate, n.d., Is animated or
cartoon portrayal of pedophilic child pornography morally acceptable? , viewed
26 May 2012,
Ropelato, J n.d., ‘Internet Pornography
Statistics’, TopTenReviews, viewed 25 May 2012,
Custom Media Release, 2007, $9000 fine
for importing child pornography, Australia Government, viewed 25 May 2012,
Appendix A: USA Betty Boop character in Cartoon.
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