What is the proper role of pornography in American society?

I think porn plays a bad role in American society because so many people are involved with it and get so obsessed with it. It takes up so much time in peoples lives and does them no good. Whether they're sitting at home watching it on their tv or watching it on the internet; it's everywhere! Porn can become a bad habit to anyone like the man we saw who lost everything because he was so obsessed and involved with porn. People say porn is their "escape" or helps them have their own time, but that's where the addiction starts. It also makes people think that they need to be like the girls or the guys being filmed, or even act as they do. Also, it puts a sterotype on housewives, school girls, and others.

 

Do we focus on physical beauty too much?

I definitely think our culture focuses on being beautiful too much. In class we discussed that your appearence can effect whether someone gets a job or not over someone else. Yes, you need to be presentable, but you don't need to be the perfect descripiton of beauty. Someone could be not as goof looking as someone else, but does work so much better and they wouldn't get the opportunity to show that. I think our society makes a very unhealty picture for beauty. On televison shows and in magazines you rarely see a plus sized girls, or a girls with braces and glasses because that isn't considered beautiful in our society so they don't want to advertise it. Being considered beautiful in our culture today is very had for anyone.

Is our popular culture healthy in regaurds to beauty?

I do not think our popular culture is healthy in regaurds to beauty because some women physically are unable to be Pamela Anderson beautiful and it really gets to them when they don't look like that. Also, it makes our culture look bad when women don't look like that since they expect them too. Although, Pamela Anderson is not naturally beautiful that is our cultures beautiful icon. Not all women can afford surgeries and procedures too look beautiful and fix their natural flaws. Our culture should not have a beautiful icon because beautiful should be determined what is on the inside as well.

How do you respond to the arguments that have been made in this weeks reading?

I enjoyed the arguments that have been made this week. For me personally, it put a different outlook on beauty. I was one of those people thinking you have to be celebrity pretty to be considered a beautiful person, but now I know some people don't like that fake look and true beauty is really on the inside. I was also very surprised that some people didn't like the perfect face, perfect body, celebrity look. The different ways people view the body and determine if someone is beautiful is very interesting to me.