Human Sexuality: An Undergraduate Research Guide : Pornography
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- Newspaper Source PlusNewspaper Source Plus includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, providing more than 28 million full-text articles.
- Newspaper Research GuideThis guide describes sources for current and historical newspapers available in print, electronically, and on microfilm through the UW-Madison Libraries. These sources are categorized by pages: Current, Historical, Local/Madison, Wisconsin, US, Alternative/Ethnic, and International.
Organizations
- Association of Sites Against Child PornographyAnti-child pornography movement investigating child pornography websites.
- Free Speech CoalitionThe Free Speech Coalition is a trade association for the adult entertainment industry. It works to "limit the legal risks of being an adult business, increases the profitability of its members, promotes the acceptance of the industry in America's business community, and supports greater public tolerance for freedom of sexual speech."
- Morality in MediaMorality in Media is a national, not-for-profit, interfaith organization established to combat obscenity. It maintains the National Obscenity Law Center, a clearinghouse of legal materials on obscenity law, and conducts public information programs.
- International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR)This Canadian nonprofit organization will sponsor and serve as the policy-making authority for the ".xxx" generic topic level Internet domain name suffix that was approved in June 2005 by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This domain name is designed to apply to the "online adult-entertainment community ... that provide sexually-oriented information, services, or products intended for consenting adults." Site provides background and reasons for the proposal.
About Pornography
This guide suggests resources on pornography and related moral, legal, and civil rights issues.
Try searching these terms using the resources linked on this page: porn*, obscenity AND law, porn* AND internet, children AND internet, porn* AND censor*, telephone sex, erotica, feminis* AND porn*, violence AND mass media, child pornography
Overview Resources - Background Information
- CQ ResearcherContains weekly in-depth reports that cover the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center(OVRC) provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles related to controversial social issues.
Books
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex by Samantha Cole
Call Number: HQ23 .C654 2022ISBN: 9781523513840Publication Date: 2022-11-15What Do We Know about the Effects of Pornography after Fifty Years of Academic Research? by Alan McKee; Katerina Litsou; Paul Byron; Roger Ingham
Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781003232032Publication Date: 2022-06-17New Views on Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, and the Law by Lynn Comella (Editor); Shira Tarrant (Editor)
Call Number: HQ472.U6 N485 2015ISBN: 9781440828058Publication Date: 2015-02-17Why Internet Porn Matters by Margret Grebowicz
Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780804786706Publication Date: 2013-02-01After Pornified: How Women are Transforming Pornography & Why It Really Matters by Anne G. Sabo
Call Number: HQ471 S236 2012ISBN: 9781780994802Publication Date: 2012-08-16Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry by Melinda Tankard Reist (Editor); Abigail Bray (Editor)
Call Number: HQ471 B54 2011ISBN: 1876756896Publication Date: 2012-03-01The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What it Means, and Where We Go From Here by Carmine Sarracino; Kevin M. Scott
Call Number: HQ472 U6 S37 2008 or ebookISBN: 0807061530Publication Date: 2008-09-01
Articles - Scholarly and Popular
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- Communication & Mass Media CompleteIncludes articles on communication and media topics.
Statistics and Data
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