Legal Issues

The Supreme Court ruled in the case of Miller v. California that a legal definition of obscenity must meet a three-part test. In this 1973 case, material is obscene if all three of the following conditions are met:

• The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interests;

• The work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state (or federal) law; and

• The work, taken as a whole, lacks serious artistic, political or scientific value.

The Supreme Court further ruled in Paris Adult Theatre v. Slaton (1973) that material legally defined as obscene is not accorded the same protection as free speech in the First Amendment. The court ruled that even if obscene films are shown only to "consenting adults," this did not grant the films immunity from the law.

In the case of New York v. Ferber (1982), the Supreme Court ruled that child pornography was not protected under the First Amendment even if it was not legally defined as obscene under their three-part test. Since children cannot legally consent to sexual relations, child pornography constitutes sexual abuse. Congress also passed the Child Protection Act in 1984, which provided tougher restrictions on child pornography than had previously existed.

Another issue we need to examine is the topic of pornographic addiction. Victor Cline (University of Utah) has documented in his research how men who become addicted to pornographic materials, begin to desire more explicit or deviant material, and end up acting out what they have seen.

Psychologists have identified a five-step pattern in pornographic addiction. The first step is exposure. Addicts have been exposed to pornography in many ways, ranging from sexual abuse as children to looking at widely available pornographic magazines.

The second step is addiction. People who continually expose themselves to pornography "keep coming back for more and more" in order to get new sexual highs. Dr. James McCough (University of California at Irvine) says that "experiences at times of emotional or sexual arousal get locked in the brain by the chemical epinephrine and become virtually impossible to erase."

A third step is escalation. Previous sexual highs become more difficult to attain; addicts therefore begin to look for more exotic forms of sexual behavior to bring them stimulation. A fourth step is desensitization. What was initially shocking becomes routine. Shocking and disgusting sexual behavior is no longer avoided but is sought out for more intense stimulation. Concern about pain and degradation gets lost in the pursuit of the next sexual experience. A fifth step is acting out the fantasies. People do what they have seen and find pleasurable. Not every pornography addict will become a serial murderer or a rapist. But many do look for ways to act out their sexual fantasies.

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