Textual Analysis Of Porn

While images depicting sex have been widespread throughout all of human history, porn, as we think of today, wasn't common until the 18th century. The modern history of Westernized porn originates during the age of Enlightenment. It was considered an inappropriate way for individuals to express their sexual and private pleasures. With the beginning of printing press, mass media became much more accessible. However, most of the printed works were religious. It was not long before works created just for entertainment were printed, and pornographic content became largely famous yet provocative due to its greater accessibility. Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University, John Phillip Jenkins, wrote in his article "Pornography," that

The French aristocrat and philosopher's works are the last in trend of pornographic novels that establish more than porn by the current age's standards. Philosophy and moral reasoning have lived through in the pornographic novels of the 18th-century, and that includes commentaries on topics such as gender, religion and the soul. The accessibility of these materials showed that consumers of pornography during that time were up to date on the issues of their time, making them individually able to discern the philosophies present in pornography. The rise of pornography during the 18th-century took place right after the development of the novel, and most of the pornographic texts were written in literary form.. Pornographic novels quickly became one of the most prominent and favorite literary genres at that time. As it became an entrenched form of literature, novels began to break down into narratives, memoirs, and epistolary. The capability of novels evoke emotions and construct bonds between character and reader which satisfied their desires for plausibility more than any genre. Pornography gradually emerged as an individual literacy genre as writers, readers, and authorities regularly associate with one another to shape the standards of obscenity and decency. Government

This new form of expression became more extensively prevalent, resulting in a new form of adult entertainment, in the form of graphic art. This was termed pornography, Ivana Kronja, author of Politics as Porn: The Pornographic Representation of Women in Serbian Tabloids and its Roles in Politics, believes that porn was a way for people to humor themselves free of societal expectation. The term pornography itself was derived from the mid-nineteenth century from the Greek words 'porne' and 'graphos' to connote "graphic depiction of whores." Kronja narrates, porn is "an expression of the unrealizable aspiration to liberate oneself from the constrictions of culture and civilization and attain absolute pleasure." (Kronja, 187) While explicit materials seen as lewd content then, taken at that time where there was no film or photographs, visual and written materials of early years were much compliant than what society considers pornography now. Similarly, in today's time, porn was both condemned by church and state, however, this does not discourage