Saturday, April 4, 2009

Topic 5 - Obscenity, Pornography and Indecency

Critical Reflection 1 & 2

Obscenity, pornography and indecency are the terms that related to sexual issue or sexual morality. These terms can put into a same categories but there are some differences in between these terms. Obscenity mostly use to descibe the content that refer to sexual expressions but it not always limited to sexual materials. It can simply used to mean or any similar with dislike. There are only slightly different between obscenity and indecency. Most nations have laws against indecency which regulate certain sexual acts, and restrict one's ability to display certain parts of the body in public, which is call as indecent exposure or also call as public indecency. Similarly, the level offense generated by a profane word or phrase depends on region, context and audiences.

Pornography is refer to sexual subject matter that can exiciting the viewer which may use variety of media. The legal status of pornography varies widely from country to country. Most countries allow at least some form of pornography but there are also ages limited to males and females under age of 18 are not allowed to appear in any forms of media because child pornography is illegal. Other than that, most countries also have restrictions on pornography involving violence and animals. Pornography have it own efficacy, it have the good and also the bad effect to the society. Some people are oppose pornography because for them pornography is not good and it influence the mind of young generation and may lead to the wrong path way. But, there are also an argued that pornography is vital to freedom and that a free and civilized society should be judge by its willingness to accept pornography.

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