Analysis of representation of sexuality on women's and men's pornographic websites

Keywords:
pornography, pornographic website, men's pornography, women's pornography, sexual inequality, sexual objectification, gender differences
Abstract

We investigated how the sexuality of men and women is represented on pornographic websites aimed at women and pornographic websites aimed at men. We analyzed 200 pornographic images randomly selected from 4 websites (2 aimed at women and 2 aimed at men). The criteria for comparison were based on concepts of sexual inequality and sexual objectification that have been commonly used in the literature on analyses of pornography content. The findings showed that websites containing pornography aimed at men were more likely than the websites aimed at women to include content with elements of sexual inequality, whereas websites aimed at women were more likely than the websites aimed at men to include content with elements of sexual objectification.

Author Biographies
  1. Jae Woong Shim, Sookmyung Women's University
    School of Communication and Media
  2. Mahnwoo Kwon, Kyungsung University
    School of Digital Content
  3. Hong-In Cheng, Kyungsung University
    Department of Industrial and Management Engineering
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2014-10-15
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