Week 9 :Obscenity, Pornography and Indecency

Blog Assignment: Topic 5 :

Obscenity, pornography and indecency: What are the differences between these terms?

Definitions of Obscenity, Pornography and Indecency on the Web :

Obscenity is a term that is most often used in a legal context to describe expressions (words, images, actions) that offend the prevalent sexual morality of the time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity

Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer. It is to a certain extent similar to erotica, which is the use of sexually arousing imagery.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography

Indecency is the state or quality of being indecent; lack of modesty, taste, or propriety

http://www.yourdictionary.com/indecency

Critical Reflections on Obscenity, Pornography and Indecency

1) Obscenity, pornography and indecency are three different words but they are linked together from my opinion. Pornography is defined as production that consist of video or pictures that are fully intended to stimulate sexual arousal to the viewer illegally, while obscenity is to describe expressions from the picture for example that offend the prevalent sexually morality of the time according to wikipedia. Indecency in the other hand is the state or quality of being indecent according to yourdictionary.com

2) Nowadays media are the tools to spread out this 3 different things, especially pornography. For example, Internet are popular with the word "pornography" as it is every easy to search for it in the internet. I do agree that it can spoil a child's mind with pornography. Movies are also one of the tools to spread obscenity, pornography and indecency. In some countries, porn are legal. It is still a debatable topic to make it legal or illegal. But in my opinion all I can see are bad effects, so there's no point making it legal except of getting pleasure.

Reflection on the Media Culture class

This week we didn't learn anything for our subject Media Culture, but we had a good briefing on our second assignment on discussing the human needs that the Media help satisfy in term of the News and Entertainment.