1.

How does pop culture keep people who have been socialized in the pornographic culture
interested?
2. Is it true that the only goal of pornography is to reach an orgasm? If true, would it be the
female’s one or the male’s one?
3. How does pop culture portray sex in mainstream media? Give an example.
4. How does pornography seep from the pornographic images through pop culture into
everyday lives of women?
5. What does pornography industry packaged by mainstream media look like?
6. What has happened to many of the women in the pornography industry when they were
children? Has the same thing happened to men in the pornography industry?
7. What are the conditions of the majority of women who get in the pornography industry?
8. What are feminist accused for? What does Gail Dines say about it?
9. What does “media helps to shape, define and construct identities, ideology and the
society in which we live” mean? What happens with people who are studying media and
its impact on society? What are they doing wrong?
10. How can we know pornography has an enormous effect on the way we perceive the
reality of the world? Give an example.
11. Why do men have such a hard time seeing the violence in pornography?
12. What does “to sexualize violence” mean? Give an example.
13. How does pornography make people think women don’t have the same level of humanity?
14. What can we do about this problem?
15. What do we have to do to have a fair an equal society?
16. What does Gail Dines mean when she says this is not a just society on an economic level
and on a cultural level?

Further research:

1. Is it pornography and prostitution related in any way? Give an example.

2. Are porn industry and prostitution industry linked? Why? How?
3. What does “sexualization” mean? Are men and women equally sexualized in society? Give
examples.
4. What do human rights have to do with the problem of pornography industry and
prostitution industry?
5. Does prostitution and pornography go against human rights? If so, how?
6. Can a world with pornography and prostitution be fair? Why?
7. How do pornography and prostitution affect women’s health? What are the physical and
psychological effects on women in porn and prostitution industry?
8. How many women in prostitution suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder? Can a
phenomenon that causes so much trauma be called “work”? How should we call it, then?
How is it compered to war veterans?
9. What’s the difference between PTSD and complex PTSD?
10. From the human rights perspective, why can prostitution and pornography not be
perceived as “work”? What are the similarities between prostitution/pornography and
slavery?
11. Can a person sell themselves? Should society allow people to “consent” their own sexual
exploitation?
12. Are men who “buy sex” more likely to commit coercive and violent acts against women?
13. According to all the information you have found about porno and prostitution industry,
should it be legal?