Ava Sandoval

Rachel Gift

Composition I-112

5 November 2021

Citations

Dekeseredy, Walter S. “Violence against Women in Pornography” Researchgate.net.

Culture Reframed, Jan. 2016,

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296938550_Violence_against_Women_in

_Pornography. Accessed 2 November 2021

The second source is a peer-reviewed article entitled “Violence Against Women in

Pornography” written by Walter Dekeseredy and Marilyn Corsianos. The main focus of this

article is how pornography negatively affects how women are treated. Specifically how visuals

of women being treated aggressively during intercourse can translate to the sexual mistreatment

and violence towards women off the screen. The author uses studies dated as far back as the

1970s, as well as recent sources dating from the 1990s to the present day. The contrasting time

periods of his sources show that men have always been the primary consumers of pornography

that includes forced sex and violence towards the female(s) involved, thus believed to contribute

to the desensitization to rape and sexual aggression towards women in sexual settings. The

author's more recent research explains how the combination of porn and the rise in “hook-up”

culture, specifically in college-aged men, has also contributed to the objectification of women in
the sense that women can be perceived sexually in any situation or profession because of how

they are depicted online and in porn

The author of this article, Walter Dekeseredy, holds a Ph.D. in sociology and has written

over 100 peer-reviewed scholarly articles. This journal article specifically was written as a

contribution to culturereframed.org, an organization dedicated to providing information on the

negative effects pornography can have on the development of adolescence; As well as how

pornography contributes to violence, sex addiction, and exploitation. The website's editing board

includes several professors and experts in the psychology and sociology fields. Many with up to

20+ years of experience in their fields. I will be using this article as a source for my paper

because it contains very extensive information regarding the history of women in pornography

compared to the present day. The author informs on the negatives of pornography and its

contributions towards violence against women without taking a biased stance.

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 Force, Porn. “She Loves to Get Used - No Mercy for Her Pussy - Bleached Raw - EP III.”

Pornhub, https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5e9b96c51244f.

Accessed 2 November 2021.

Skye, Amelia. “Getting Spitroasted in Hot Hardcore Threesome .” XVideos,

https://www.xvideos.com/video59080085/regional/407/0/getting_spitroasted_in_ho

t_hardcore_threesome_-_amelia_skye. Accessed 2 November 2021.

Unknown Author. “Beautiful Brunette Lets Me Fuck Her Pussy Hard.” RedTube,

https://www.redtube.com/39386241. Accessed 2 November 2021.

My next source has been blurred and censored due to graphic content, but it includes

images sourced from the home pages of three of the most popular porn websites, pornhub.com,

xvideos.com, and xhamster.com. Each of these videos were located within the top 5

recommended videos when first entering the homepage of each website. In each title, there is a

clear insinuation of the female in the video being treated with force. For example “used”, “no

mercy”, “spit-roasted”, and “hardcore”. The thumbnails of each video also include the female

subjects with tears running down their face, being choked, grabbed, slapped, etc. Throughout the

videos, the female subjects are regularly referred to with demeaning names such as “slut”,

“bitch”, “whore”, “dumb”, etc. Each video has a very large amount of views, one in particular

with 31.6 million views, showing how popular this type of content is. While these homepages

change from day to day based on what videos are gaining attention, genres like hardcore, BDSM,
rape, and gangbangs, are always featured on the main page and garner thousands of views every

day.

These images fall under the category of primary resources and are taken straight from the

home page of three of the most popular porn sites; With PornHub reaching up to 100 million

visits per day as reported in 2019. They are created by both popular and amateur adult content

creators and have a combined viewing of over 32 million views. I will be using them as sources

for my paper because they are what is being generically advertised on the websites

Rostad, Whitney L., et al. “The Association between Exposure to Violent Pornography and Teen

Dating Violence in Grade 10 High School Students.” Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol.

48, no. 7, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-1435-4. Accessed 2 November 2021.

This article is entitled “The Association Between Exposure to Violent Pornography and

Teen Dating Violence in Grade 10 High School Students” Written by Whitney Rostad and

published by Singer Science and Business Media in 2019. It details the correlation between

exposure to pornography and dating violence in teenagers. The article uses baseline survey data

from a sample of high school juniors who had been in a year-long relationship. The information

and data this article provides support the claim that exposure to pornography can lead to

increased dating violence. Studies reported that women were in the larger margarin of victims

and young males who had consumed pornography were 2–3 times more likely to report dating

violence. Rostad informs on how pornography, especially violent in genre or toned with

aggression, has become increasingly readily available to young users and may have negative

impacts on future sexual interactions and relationships. The article additionally states that violent

pornography to the negative attitudes, risky behavior, and violence against women.
 I will be using this source for my research paper as it includes a very intensive study and

very reliable sources. It was published by The Archives of Sexual Behavior which is a

peer-reviewed academic journal in sexology. It is also the official publication of the Academy of

Sex Research. The Archives of Sexual Behavior was created in 1971 and is published by

Springer Science+Business Media which is one of the largest publishes in the

Science/Technology/Medicine sector. Overall I believe it offers very valuable information and

statistics and is backed by authors experienced in the field of gender studies and sexology. The

studies done in this article go very in-depth on the relationship between pornography

consumption and teen dating violence and if there is a correlation between this. It’s complex and

informative.

Vaes, Jeroen. “Are Sexualized Women Complete Human Beings? Why Men and Women

Dehumanize Sexually Objectified Women.” Wiley Online Library, John Wiley & Sons,

Ltd, 14 June 2011, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.824. Accessed 2

November 2021.

The last source is titled “Are sexualized women complete human beings?” written by

Jeroen Vaes, Paola Paladino, and Elisa Puvia, published by the European Journal of Social

Psychology in 2011. The author’s main point of this research article is to examine how sexually

objectified targets are dehumanized based on three different studies. The first study was tested on

the hypothesis that women’s publicity photos for product promotion are more commonly

associated with non-human concepts. The second study looked at how males and females view
and respond to women that have been sexually objectified and how they were dehumanized.

Lastly, the third study was based on how men react compared to women when a sex goal is

involved including good-looking female targets. Each study showed in some form that men act

aggressively towards women who are objectified and dehumanized, and women are far more

often dehumanized in sexual manners. The final discussion of this source explains how when

men are sexually attracted to a woman they value physical characteristics over personality,

therefore, seeing her as less of a human being.

I will not be using this article as a source for my paper because I believe there are some

undertones of bias and the information is not relevant to my topic. The title of the article attempts

to provoke shock by asking an exaggerated and rhetorical question and the “studies” done seem

to be more observational than factual. Although some information from the tests could have been

useful to support my theory, the topic of these studies relates to the objectification and

dehumanization of women in everyday life and common setting rather than in pornography

specifically. There is little to no mention of porn in the article which is the main topic of my

paper and therefore most of the information is irrelevant.