Contemporary

Sexuality:
Issues of Commodification
Contents:
• Erotica • Prostitution
• Strip-Tease • Mail Order
• Cybersex Brides
• Pornography • Sexual Slavery
nition
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De EROTICA
 EROTICA
Definition
• from the Greek Eros — "desire"
• works of art, including literature,
photography, film, sculpture and
painting, that deal substantively
with erotically stimulating or
sexually arousing descriptions
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 EROTICA
History
• Early eroticas are mainly done by
sculpture and paintings that date
back to the Paleolithic era (e.g.
petro glyph of the vulva & venus
figurines)
 EROTICA
History

venus
figurines

petro glyph
of the vulva
 EROTICA
History
• Erotic paintings and sculptures
are also evident in the Greek and
roman civilizations
• The Greeks have carved phallic
symbols in the temple of
Dionysius
 EROTICA
History
• The Romans
considers the
depiction of sex
in their
decorations to
be a good design
 EROTICA
History

• One of the ancient roman erotic

arts that is of high value today is
the Warren Cup which is a silver
cup that is designed with two
representations of homosexual acts
 EROTICA
History
• Most of the
excavated erotic
objects from
Pompeii is being
kept in the Secret
Museum at Naples,
Italy
Warren Cup
 EROTICA
• Erotica is also rich in the eastern part
of the world
• A good example would be the famous
ancient sex manual Kama Sutra
written in India
• In Japan, erotic art made its way
through woodblock painting called
Shunga during the 13th century
 EROTICA

• The production of
Shunga only stopped
during the 19th
century because of
the invention of
photography

Shunga
 EROTICA

• In China, erotic literature is present

since the 11th century
• One of the famous erotic literatures
which originated there was The Plum
in the Golden Vase and was
considered as one of the four great
classical novels
 EROTICA

• In the Philippines, erotica exists only

in mild forms mainly because we
have a highly Christian culture
• They exist mainly as magazines under
the genre of Sexual-issue publications
 EROTICA

• Because of the advancement in

technology, erotica became more
accessible to people around the globe

• erotica is more accepted than

pornography in conservative countries
mainly because of the difference in
their purposes
nition
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De STRIPTEASE
 STRIPTEASE
Definition
• erotic or exotic dance in which the
performer gradually undresses,
usually to music, either partly or
completely, in a seductive and
sexually suggestive manner
• The person who performs a striptease
is commonly known as a "stripper" or
exotic dancer
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 STRIPTEASE
Venues
• strip clubs, pubs, theaters and music
halls
• In addition to night club entertainment,
stripping can be a form of sexual play
between partners
• can be done as an impromptu event
or perhaps for a special occasion
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 STRIPTEASE
History

• The origins of striptease as a

performance art are disputed and
various dates and occasions have
been given from ancient Babylonia
to twentieth century America
 STRIPTEASE
History

• The term 'striptease' was first

recorded in 1938, though 'stripping',
in the sense of women removing
clothing to sexually excite men,
seems to go back at least 400 years
 STRIPTEASE
History
• Other possible influences on modern
stripping were the dances of the
Ghawazee
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 STRIPTEASE
American Tradition
• In America, striptease started in carnivals
and burlesque theatres, and featured
famous strippers such as Gypsy Rose Lee
and Sally Rand
• The sixties saw a revival of striptease in
the form of topless go-go dancing. This
eventually merged with the older
tradition of burlesque dancing
 STRIPTEASE
American Tradition

• “If a thing is
worth doing, it
is worth doing
slowly . . .very
slowly” - Gypsy
Rose Lee
 STRIPTEASE
American Tradition
• Carol Doda of the Condor Night Club in
the North Beach section of San Francisco
is given the credit of being the first
topless go-go dancer
• The club went "bottomless" on
September 3, 1969 and began the trend
of explicit "full nudity" in American
striptease dancing.
 STRIPTEASE
American Tradition
• San Francisco is also the location of the
notorious Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell
Theatre
• Originally an X-rated movie theater
• pioneered lap dancing in 1980
• major force in popularizing it in strip
clubs on a nationwide and eventually
world wide basis
Bri
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 STRIPTEASE
British Tradition

• The Windmill
Theatre in 2009
 STRIPTEASE
British Tradition
• In Britain in the 1930s, when Laura
Henderson began presenting nude shows
at the Windmill Theatre, London, the
British law prohibited naked girls from
moving
• They used fan dance in order for the
show to stay within the law
 STRIPTEASE
British Tradition
• An interesting custom in these pubs is
that the strippers walk round and collect
money from the customers in a beer jug
before each individual performance
• Private dances of a more raunchy nature
are sometimes available in a separate
area of the pub
pan
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 STRIPTEASE
Japan Tradition
• Striptease became popular in Japan
after the end of When
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War II.
Shigeo Ozaki saw Gypsy Rose Lee
perform, he started his own striptease
revue in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood.
 STRIPTEASE
Japan Tradition
• During the 1950s, Japanese "strip
shows" became more sexually
explicit and less dance-oriented,
until they were eventually simply
live sex shows.
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 STRIPTEASE
Male Strippers
• In the 1970s, male
strippers, performing
to female audiences,
have also become
common

A male stripper at the Fly 2

gay bar
 STRIPTEASE
Male Strippers

• Male and female strippers also

perform for gay and lesbian audiences
respectively, as well as for both sexes
in pansexual contexts.
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 STRIPTEASE
Private Dancing
• A variation on striptease
• often involves lap dancing or contact
dancing
• include private dances like table
dancing
 STRIPTEASE
Private Dancing
• Often lap dances
involve bringing the
patron to orgasm via
frottage
(rubbing against
him).  The tease?
None to speak of.
 STRIPTEASE

• From ancient times to the present

day, striptease was considered a
form of public nudity and subject
to legal and cultural prohibitions
on moral and decency grounds.
 STRIPTEASE

• Many U.S. jurisdictions have specific

laws on the books related to striptease.
• One of the more notorious local
ordinances is San Diego Municipal Code
33.3610.
Among its provisions is the "six
foot rule", copied by other municipalities
in requiring that dancers maintain a six
foot distance while performing.
 STRIPTEASE

• Other rules forbidIn

"full
somenudity".
parts of the
USA, there are laws forbidding the
exposure of female nipples, which
have thus to be covered by pasties by
the dancer (though no such taboo
applies to the exposure of male
nipples)
nition
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De CYBER SEX
 CYBER SEX
Definition
• computer sex, internet sex, netsex,
mudsex, TinySex and, colloquially,
cybering
• virtual sex encounter in which two or
more persons connected remotely via
computer network send each other
sexually explicit messages describing a
sexual experience.
 CYBER SEX
Definition
• sometimes includes real life
masturbation
• Quality depends upon the
participants' abilities to evoke a vivid,
visceral mental picture in the minds of
their partners.
 CYBER SEX
Definition
• participants in any Internet chat may
suddenly receive a message with any
possible variation of the text "Wanna
cyber?", or a request for "C2C"/"C4C"
("cam to cam" and "cam for cam",
respectively).
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Char CYBER SEX
 CYBER SEX
Characteristics
• commonly performed in Internet
chat rooms and on instant messaging
systems
• can also be performed using webcams,
voice chat systems like Skype, or online
games and/or virtual worlds like
Second Life
 CYBER SEX
Characteristics
• It is also fairly frequent in on-line
role-playing games
(e.g. MUDs &
MMORPGs)
• Some online social games like Red
Light Center are dedicated to
cybersex and other adult behaviors
• These online games are often called
AMMORPGs.
 CYBER SEX
Characteristics
• Cybersex may also be accomplished
through the use of avatars in a multiuser
software environment.
• It is often called mudsex or netsex in
MUDs.
• In TinyMUD variants, particularly
MUCKs, the term TinySex (TS) is very
common.
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 CYBER SEX
Uses
• can be utilised to write co-written
original fiction and fanfiction by
role-playing in third person
• can also be used to gain
experience for solo writers who
want to write more realistic sex
scenes, by exchanging ideas
 CYBER SEX
Uses
• One approach to cybering is a
simulation of "real" sex
• Amongst "serious" roleplayers,
cybering may occur as part of a
larger plot–the characters involved
may be lovers or spouses
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Ad CYBER SEX
 CYBER SEX
Advantages
• physically safe way for young
people to experiment with sexual
thoughts and emotions
• allows real-life partners who are
physically separated to continue to
be sexually intimate
 CYBER SEX
Advantages
• enable participants to act out
fantasies which they would not act
out in real life
• takes much less effort and resources
on the Internet than in real life
cism
Cri
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 CYBER SEX
Criticism
• often ridiculed because the partners
frequently have little verifiable
knowledge (including gender) about
However, since for many the
each other.
primary point of cybersex is the
realistic simulation of sexual activity,
this knowledge is not always desired
or necessary.
 CYBER SEX
Criticism
• critics claim that the powerful emotions
involved can cause marital stress,
especially when cybersex culminates in
an Internet romance
• In several known cases Internet
adultery became the grounds for which
a couple divorced
nition
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fi PORNOGRAPH
Y
 PORNOGRAPH
Definition Y

• Films, magazines, writings,

photographs, or other materials that
are sexually explicit and intended to
arouse sexual excitement in their
audience.
 PORNOGRAPH
Definition Y

• Greek words porne (“prostitute”)

and graphein (“to write”), the word
pornography originally referred to
any work of art or literature dealing
with sex and sexual themes.
 PORNOGRAPH
Definition Y
• “sexually explicit subordination of
women and view it as a form of
discrimination against women, not
simply a violation of traditional moral
norms.”- feminist thinkers: Gloria
Steinem, Catharine MacKinnon, and
Andrea Dworkin
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Y
 PORNOGRAPH
History Y
• Although little is known about the
origins of pornography, it is as old as
The ancient Greeks used
written records.
pornographic themes in songs in
Dionysian festivals
, and ancient Romans
painted pornographic pictures on
walls in the ancient city of Pompeii.
 PORNOGRAPH
History Y
• Prevalent also in some ancient
Eastern cultures, such as those of
India, Japan, and China
• It was not until the 1800s, however,
that pornography began to become a
social problem, primarily because
the spread of technology
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Fo PORNOGRAPH
Y
 PORNOGRAPH
Forms Y
• Adult Magazines
• Video Cassettes
(CDs/DVDs na
ngayon… ^^,)
• Motion Pictures
• Television
• Audio Porn
 PORNOGRAPH
Y

• The content of pornography is a

reflection (positive or negative) of
the culture from which it arises.
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Y
 PORNOGRAPH
Effects Y
• Opponents of pornography believe it
encourages immorality, sexual
violence, and negative attitudes
toward women
, while defenders see
pornography for adults as a harmless
diversion that may serve to relieve
sexual tensions.
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Y
 PORNOGRAPH
Legal Issues Y

• The Philippines has a law

proscribing and punishing
pornography.
nition
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fi PROSTITUTIO
N
 PROSTITUTIO
Definition N

• Work of prostitute: the act of

engaging in sexual intercourse or
performing other sex acts in
exchange for money, or of offering
another person for such purposes.
 PROSTITUTIO
Definition N

• Misuse of talent for gain: the use of a

skill or ability in a way that is
considered unworthy, usually for
financial gain.
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N
 PROSTITUTIO
History N

• We can say with some confidence

that wherever there have been
money, goods, or services to be
bartered, somebody has bartered
them for sex.
 PROSTITUTIO
History N
• The Code of Hammurabi includes
provisions to protect the inheritance
rights of prostitutes, the only
category of women (except for
widows) who had no male providers
(18th century BC).
 PROSTITUTIO
History N
• Greek literature refers to three classes
of prostitutes:
pornai, or slave prostitutes
freeborn street prostitutes
hetaera, educated prostitute-
entertainers
 PROSTITUTIO
History N

• Pornai and street prostitutes could

be a male or a female
• Hetaera were always females
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N
 PROSTITUTIO
Forms N

• Direct Forms
• Indirect Forms
 PROSTITUTIO
Forms N

•
Direct Forms and dating are
Prostitution
• Indirect Forms
no different.
On Streets.
Club, pub, bar, karaoke bar,
dance hall.
Door knock or hotel.
 PROSTITUTIO
Forms N
• Indirect Forms
Lap dancing.
Massage Parlour.
Opportunistic.
nition
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fi MAIL ORDER BRIDES
 MAIL ORDER BRIDES

Definition
• It is where a woman list her name
on a catalog or a magazine for the
purpose of marrying a man from
another country.
• Another way of practicality
especially in women because of
desire to marry a financially stable
man.
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 MAIL ORDER BRIDES

History
• Started during the time of Abraham
wherein he commanded his
subordinate to find a wife for his son.
• Since the availability of the internet was
not in the market yet, the most
common way of listing their names in
such process is thru the use of a catalog.
 MAIL ORDER BRIDES

• The major reason behind a woman

becoming a mail-order bride is
because she wants to help her
family especially on the financial
part.
 MAIL ORDER BRIDES

• Another thing is that the divorce

rate with this kind of relationship
is quite low than those of other
kinds of relationships.
nition
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fi SEXUAL SLAVERY
 SEXUAL SLAVERY
Definition

• the exercise of any or all of the powers

attached to the "right of ownership"
over a person. - Roman Statute
 SEXUAL SLAVERY

Rape of the Sabine

Women
 SEXUAL SLAVERY

• Human trafficking for the purpose

of sexual exploitation is a major
cause of contemporary sexual
slavery.
 SEXUAL SLAVERY

• Common destinations of human

traficking:
Thailand Germany
Japan Italy
Israel Turkey
Belgium US
Netherlands
 SEXUAL SLAVERY

• Major sources of trafficked persons:

Thailand Belarus
China Moldova
Nigeria Ukraine
Albania
Bulgaria
 SEXUAL SLAVERY
• A declaration of the World Congress
against Commercial Sexual Exploitation
of Children, held in Stockholm in 1996,
defined CSEC as:
‘sexual abuse by the adult and
remuneration in cash or kind to the child
or a third person or persons. The child is
treated as a sexual object and as a
commercial object.
 SEXUAL SLAVERY

• Child pornography are compounded

by the wide distribution and lasting
availability of the photographs of the
abuse.
 SEXUAL SLAVERY

• Child sex tourism (CST) is a travel to

a foreign country for the purpose of
engaging in commercially facilitated
child sexual abuse.
SEXUAL SLAVERY

• “Forced prostitution"
generally refers to
conditions of control
over a person who is
coerced by another
to engage in sexual
activity
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