Pornographication

Pornographication, sometimes referred to as raunch culture, denotes the intrusion of the style and contents of the sex industry into mainstream culture (music, television, Hollywood movies) and the sexualisation of Western culture. Pornographication, particularly sexualising the images of women, is said to demonstrate "how patriarchal power operates in the field of gender representation." In Women in Popular Culture, Marion Meyers argues that the portrayal of women in modern society is primarily influenced by "the mainstreaming of pornography and its resultant hypersexualization of women and girls, and the commodification of those images for a global market."

The phenomenon has been discussed by authors such as Marian Meyers and Kath Woodward. Pornographication also features in discussions of post-feminism by Ariel Levy,Natasha Walter, Feona Attwood, and Brian McNair.

Pornography and the modern sex culture has been around for many decades, but got its roots in the Greek word "porni, which means prostitute andgraphein,which means to write. It is shown throughout various global cultures. In ancient Greece and Rome, there was many sexually charged images on the walls. When the printing press was invented, it was much easier to distribute information to the masses this is how the first versions of erotica came about. What most people think about Western pornography and the sex culture started with the Enlightenment of the 18th century. With many more people had access to viewing pornographic material during the enlightenment of the 18th century, and in England there was even a famous book called Fanny Hill; or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. This had commercial success as one of the earliest forms of erotica. During this time, people started thinking more freely, so pornography could challenge the norms of the time, as with Marquis de Sade's book Justine. While most pornographic images before the 19th century were images or books, when the motion picture was invented, it created a whole new medium for sexual imagery. At the start of the 1920's, it was becoming popular throughout the West. As time went on, and the Internet was invented in the 90's, more people could express themselves sexually online, and anyone could post pictures or videos if they chose to. Pornography in the West is generally much more widely accepted, with "66% of men and 41% consume pornography on a monthly basis".

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