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DESCRIPTION:Just Released-----A Santa Cruz Premiere\nHow has human sexuality become an 
 opportunity for private enterprise?  Corporations make money off of human 
 needs, wants, and desires. In the process, they begin to shape those needs, 
 wants, and desires.\n\nJoin us in an important opportunity to address the 
 issue of how we teach intimacy. Too often parents, teachers, health 
 educators, clergy and counselors have given the task of teaching intimacy 
 over to the sex industry with scant intervention or discussion.  
 \n\nSYNOPSIS\nOnce relegated to the margins of society, pornography has 
 become one of the most visible and profitable sectors of the cultural 
 industries in the United States. It is estimated that the pornography 
 industry's annual revenue has reached $13 billion. At the same time, the 
 content of pornography has become more aggressive as well as more overtly 
 sexist and racist. Going beyond the debate of liberal versus conservative, 
 the film features the voices of consumers, critics, and pornography 
 producers and performers. It paints a nuanced portrait of how pleasure and 
 pain, commerce and power, and liberty and responsibility are intertwined in 
 the most intimate parts of our sexual identities and relationships. 
 (Warning this video contains explicit sexual activity, language and 
 violence.)\n\n• Whereas we’ve become increasingly more aware and 
 critical of racist stereotypes in the\nmass media, pornography has not 
 reflected these same developments. The images of\nAfrican American men and 
 women are incredibly racist. Black men are depicted as out of\ncontrol 
 sexually, and black women are portrayed as animalistic and unable to get 
 enough\nsex. Other ethnic minority groups are exploited by the porn 
 industry as well. \n• Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, a college student, thinks 
 that women often join sexism, instead\nof fighting it. “It’s just 
 giving up on the idea that we could change the terms of how\nwomen are 
 thought to be,” she says.\n• A team of scholars from New York 
 University, the University of Massachusetts, and the\nUniversity of Rhode 
 Island examined 304 scenes from the most popular videos released\nin 2005. 
 The research team found that:\n• 89.8% of the scenes included either 
 verbal or physical aggression;\n• 48% contained verbal aggression, mostly 
 name-calling and insults;\n• 82.2% contained physical aggression;\n• 
 94.4% of the aggressive acts were targeted at women.\n• The research team 
 also found that female performers frequently expressed enjoyment 
 in\nresponse to aggressive behavior.\n• Robert Jensen argues that 
 pornography is no longer seen as a deviant sexuality. It’s now\nvery 
 conventional. \n• 70% of pornography’s audience is straight men 
 watching alone.\n• The content in pornography is getting harsher and 
 harsher. Joe Gallant, of Black Mirror\nproductions, admits that he thinks 
 the future of American porn is violence. Torture-like\nscenes are already 
 produced to titillate and sexually arouse.\n• Gail Dines says that 
 pornography has sexualized violence against women to such an\nextent that 
 the violence is now invisible.\n\nWHAT THE FILM IS REALLY ABOUT\nQuotes 
 from the filmmakers: Chyng Sun & Miguel Picker\nIt is through pornography, 
 we see how the interlocking systems of sexism, racism and capitalism play 
 out in a macro level that enable the types of materials that we examined in 
 the film to be so widely produced, distributed and consumed. But even more 
 importantly, we see how those systems and the values they propagate have 
 seeped into our deepest psyche and help to construct our sexual desires and 
 imaginations. Pornography is not just people having sex. \n \nOvercoming 
 Racism, Sexism and Classism - - An Educational Series of 3 Wednesdays \n 
 Nov. 12, Dec. 10th\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/06/18549418.php
SUMMARY:The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality & Relationships
LOCATION:Quaker Meeting House\n225 Rooney Street off Highway 1 Morrissey Exit 
 mountain side of freeway.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/06/18549418.php
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