Pornography and Repression: A Reconsideration

Sex role stereotyping and reactions to depictions of stranger versus acquaintance rape.

“…In contrast, low sex role stereotyping individuals showed lower levels of arousal to rape, with arousal patterns more akin to those of Abel et al's nonrapist sample. Thus, it seems that, at least in terms of sexual arousal, there is some validity to the contention of sex role theorists (e.g., Clark & Lewis, 1977;Diamond, 1980) that there are many "normal" individuals in society who have response characteristics that are similar to those of identified rapists. 5 3 To take advantage of greater statistical power, these correlations were computed using the data of all subjects who participated in the experimental phase of the research.…”

“…Most notably, high sex role stereotyping individuals showed sexual arousal patterns equivalent to those typically found with identified rapist populations. As well, 44% of the men in this group indicated some likelihood of raping.A number of writers have suggested that rape is in many respects a logical extension of our sex role socialization processes that legitimize coercive sexuality (Burt, 1980;Clark & Lewis, 1977;Diamond, 1980;Russell, 1975;Weis & Borges, 1973). According to this analysis, the traditional sexual scripts (Gagnon & Simon, 1973) with which men and women are frequently raised dictate that women are not supposed to indicate directly their sexual interest or to engage freely in sexuality.…”

Feminist Attitudes Toward Pornography Control

“…The issue for radical feminists is not gender differences in opportunity but the use of women to serve men's interests. Radical feminists view pornography as an extremely important means of enforcing men's control of women and their bodies and sustaining domination of women (Diamond, 1980). During the 1980s, an "anti-antiporn" group emerged (Russo, 1987), including such writers as Willis (1983) and Vance (1984).…”

The study of aggressive pornography: The vicissitudes of relevance

“…1 Particular attention is given to this new literature in Nelson (1982), Diamond (1980), and Eysenck and Nias (1978). See also Fagan (1984) for a more developed but slanted annotated bibliography prepared by David Scott for a conservative lobby group during the Meese hearings in Washington.…”