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We all harbor secrets. Some are big and bad; some are small and trivial. Researchers have parsed which truths to tell and which not to.
Posted March 16, 2019
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Reviewed by Jessica Schrader
Pornography is a public health crisis! It reinforces toxic masculinity, contributes to sexual dysfunction, dysregulates sexual behavior, destroys relationships, undermines the sociosexual development of our youth, and puts women and children at risk. Or so we’ve been told. By my count, at least 11 states in the U.S. have made public declarations about the negative public health impacts of pornography. In a world of “ fake news ,” duplicitous politicians, and, indeed, fraudulent scientists , we’d all do well to engage in a healthy degree of skepticism when bold generalizations are made about the effects of pornography.
Every time I hear a new proclamation made about pornography (if you haven’t heard, some apparently believe that it makes people bisexual now ), I find myself asking, just what do they mean by “pornography”? This is not just a high-minded, ivory-tower issue. Understanding what people intend by the use of the term pornography informs not only how we should interpret research findings, but also defines the class of materials that we are constantly told to fear . Unfortunately, the apparent meaning of pornography is anything but straightforward.
Pornography is a promiscuous concept in that it defies commitment to a monogamous meaning. One of the earliest English definitions, attributed to a medical dictionary published in 1857, indicates that pornography is “a description of prostitutes or prostitution, as a matter of public hygiene” (Kendrick, 1987). If this definition were still in use today, it might read something like, “research publications concerning sex work as a matter of public health.” By this definition, I’m clearly a pornographer (please don’t tell my mother). Sure, this definition is quite a departure from how pornography is typically used today, but it does give you a sense of where this concept came from and the possible range of different uses to which it has been applied.
Collecting definitions of pornography has become a bit of a hobby for me. In my reading, I’ve found that even modern uses of this term vary tremendously in their meaning. If you look around you, you’ll come to realize that food presentations , travel photos, poignant literature, and inspirational quotes—virtually any desirable description or depiction—have all been branded as pornographic. Such uses of the term tend to be quite positive and are only loosely associated with sexuality in that they allude to the arousal of desire or to the gratification these materials provide. You might be thinking right now that these applications of pornography are very poor examples of the term’s meaning. After all, we all know what pornography truly is, right?
What if I told you that pictures in National Geographic meet the criteria of some formal definitions of “sexual” pornography, while centerfolds in Playboy do not meet others? If you read through the academic literature, you’ll find that some definitions focus on the content that is depicted when deciding what is and what isn’t pornographic. Such definitions range widely in where they draw the line: Some claim that pornography is limited to the explicit unconcealed depiction of sexual behavior, while others argue that pornography should be so broad as to include instances of implied nudity or sexual behavior (which helps explain why Bebe Rexha’s father was so upset with her latest music video). Other definitions downplay the importance of exactly what is depicted and emphasize instead the intended or actual function to which the materials are put. Generally, the assumed functions of pornography are the stimulation of sexual arousal or sexual gratification, but other users have been proposed as well, including the subordination of women, evoking offense, and using sexuality to turn a profit.
I think that there are probably two primary reasons that we have so many definitions of pornography. The first is quite straightforward: Radical feminists lay claim to different conceptual territory than scholars of law and social scientists, and each of these groups has provided their own spin on the meaning of pornography. More than that, though, some of the variations in the definitions of pornography can be attributed to repeated attempts to identify or clarify the necessary and sufficient conditions for deciding whether or not a particular example is pornographic. As it happens, this is a bit of fool’s errand, though. Cognitive psychologists have studied how humans categorize things, and they have generally found that people don’t rely on a set of criteria that perfectly differentiate category members from non-members. Instead, they tend to use more complex processes to decide where a particular example falls along a fuzzy continuum that ranges from clear category members to clear category non-members (for a good overview of these issues, check out Murphy’s The Big Book of Concepts ). In other words, in the real world, people judge how pornographic something is , rather than whether or not it is pornographic.
As with many things, academics (with the occasional help from members of the judiciary and legislators) have rather confused the issue, because they are unaware of the basic psychology underlying categorization processes. The failure to acknowledge and accept the natural fuzziness of category boundaries has created an environment where different scholars seek to redress the perceived shortcomings of particular definitions of pornography by simply drawing the line somewhere else. As a consequence, we’re now in a place where definitions of pornography range from the clear and unobstructed portrayal of sexual organs in congress to media that suggest a hint of nudity or sexual behavior.
Unfortunately, definitions of pornography matter a great deal. When conducting research, social scientists rely on conceptual definitions to guide the construction of their surveys or the media they select for their experiments. If some researchers believe that pornography is as broad as photos from a lingerie catalog while others believe that it is limited to the graphic videos involving the sexually explicit subordination of women, it becomes impossible to compare findings from study to study. Indeed, different definitions of pornography may be contributing to apparent inconsistencies in results across studies. Take a minute and ask yourself: Is it reasonable to expect that pictures of exposed breasts stimulate the same sort of responses as realistic depictions of rape? Personally, I doubt it.
This issue has implications that go beyond research as well. We are in an age where societies struggle with what to do about pornography. In some places, governments are making clear pronouncements about the harm of these materials without really understanding the research base on which such claims rest. In others, they are erecting virtual barriers to protect children from this menace. And in the most extreme examples, countries are even trying to stamp out pornography entirely. In each of these cases, we should be asking ourselves, what counts as pornography?
In 2015, a prominent motel chain in the U.S. prevented me from accessing the website of a professional organization of sexologists, because it had been previously flagged as pornography. There were no dirty pictures and no lewd text, but the word “sex” was used repeatedly on the website. This may strike some of you as a filtering error, and it may have been, but I have my doubts. You just have to take a look at what’s going on in Bangladesh , and you’ll see why. Intentional efforts to censor pornography often cast a wide net on purpose, preventing access to humor and satire of a sexual nature, as well as sexual health information and services. Just take a look at North American history. The first time the U.S. had a serious crackdown on porn, investigators burned condoms alongside 15 tons of objectionable books!
What we mean by pornography matters. If we continue to insist on making it a contemporary bogeyman, we should probably also be having a frank public conversation about what it is we’re actually talking about.
Kendrick, W. (1987). The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture. New York, NY: Viking Penguin Inc.
Murphy, G. (2004). The Big Book of Concepts. MIT press.
Taylor Kohut, Ph.D. , is a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at Western University.
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'Boffing' and 'boofing' mean two VERY different things.
There’s nothing to make you feel more uncool than being around a group of friends when they use sex slang you haven’t heard of. If you ask what the word means, you often get a response of, “Wait, really? You’ve never heard of that ? Wow, I’m surprised.” (It’s like, come on dude, don’t make me feel less cool than I’m already feeling! )
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of sex slang words out there, and new ones pop up every day while others go out of style. However, in an attempt to clear up at least a little confusion, we’ve rounded up 18 popular sex terms and phrases that you might have been wondering about recently. (These are terms I’ve run into and proceeded to learn in the past few years, so I know they’re actually coming up IRL.) Now, you’ll never be out to brunch and feel uncool again! (Actually, we can't promise that. But at least you'll be able to talk about the fine art of shrimping with the best of them.)
So without further ado, here’s your sex slang glossary, you cool kid, you.
Aftercare is the practice of making sure everyone feels cared for and supported after a sex session. There are tons of ways to do it .
Boofing is when you or a partner insert drugs into your body through your anus. This can be done with fingers, or your partner can put the drugs on their penis and have anal sex with you.
As we’ve previously defined , “Bussy is a portmanteau of the word ‘boy’ and ‘pussy’ and it’s used to refer to a man’s anus. It’s used predominantly in queer culture, particularly among more effeminate bottoms (the anal receptive partner).”
When you have sex with someone that looks identical to you (but isn’t actually related).
When someone (aggressively) fucks their partner’s mouth, typically while holding their head in place.
Felching is when you sip your cum out of your partner's anus after having anal sex. (It’s often done with a straw, but we’ll go ahead and still consider it felching if you just lick it out.)
The fine art of penetrating someone’s vagina or anus or with your entire hand. LOTS OF LUBE REQUIRED.
It’s just another word for a booty call. The word became popular after the Drake song, Hotline Bling .
When you’re watching porn while jacking off but you have to wait because the video’s buffering.
When a penis-owner shoots their semen around their partner’s neck, leaving little white circles resembling a pearl necklace.
When someone runs late because of a sexual encounter. (Get it? Like "postponed?")
This is just a word for when a vulva-owner straddles their partner’s face to get eaten out.
Also known as “rimming” or the ~sciencey-sounding~ “analingus,” it’s when someone goes to town on your booty with their mouth. Read more about how to give a rim job here .
When you suck on someone’s toes sexually.
A term that became popular on TikTok, referring to men who bend over backward to win over women who are barely interested. We get deeper into it here .
A sexual fetish that entails bringing food into your sex life—specifically large quantities of food, so that things get messy. ( Sploshing is a subset of the “wet and messy” fetish.)
A sexual fetish for getting covered in a messy substance, such as food or paint.
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