1. In light of these initial comments and first ethical arguments:
(A) How would you characterize the prevailing attitudes and judgments, both positive and/or negative, regarding bodies, women, and sexuality in the country/culture you count most as your own?
(B) Insofar as your own judgments and attitudes regarding bodies and sexuality may be different from the prevailing ones around you, can you characterize these (at least for yourself, if not for your sister- and fellow-students and/or instructors just now)?
(C) How would you define pornography*? Be careful here: given the considerable diversity of SEMs “out there” (both online and offline), you will want to start building a continuum of materials that would either count or not count, in your view, as pornography – and then what is for you ethically objectionable pornography.
For example, child pornography is all but universally condemned and criminalized. But what about SEMs involving violence, such as rape or torture – at the extreme, “snuff films” that depict the death of the (usually female) object of sexual violence and torture? At the other end of the continuum – what might be sexually explicit material that, in your view, counts more as erotic art, not pornography? Finally: where on the continuum is a line crossed into pornography – and then ethically objectionable pornography?
(D) Given your definition of “pornography,” what are your personal responses to it – including any ethical ones?
(E) Equally importantly: can you identify how far your own responses to pornography are (in)consistent with the prevailing judgments and attitudes regarding bodies and sexuality you describe above?