Pornography and the Sexualization of Society

Pornography and the Sexualization of Society SOC101 11/27/12 The topic I chose is Pornography and the Sexualization of Society. I chose this article because Ive noniced a drastic changes in the media, in advertising, and marketing that influences edict in desensitize us and our beliefs on what is normal and mor eachy acceptable in ground of exposure to devolve onual content as well as the jam marketing of items that were once rarely seen in your corner drugstore or advertised in major publications.I can recall growing up as a teenager in the 1990s and how big of a deal it was when a prime time television show feature its main characters having sex for the first time, or blush making reference to explicit sexual acts. In contrast, in the last 20 years, its common place for teens or very young adults on television and in movies to take in sex lives dramatized for entertainment. Additionally, television and print advertisements non only use explicit innuendo for contraception like condoms for example, exactly they also feature specialty enhancements for these products to make sex better for both partners.A visit to a local drugstore and there are sex toys advertised as personal massagers , lubricants for his and her pleasure and other items that would once ready only been found in an adult bookstore. Pornography, not only in print and privately packaged covers can be found at most book stores as well as online websites with almost no age restriction. Soft porn is also readily available on cable television, and not just on premium channels designated adults only.HBO, Cinemax and Starz all have late night content that I would not regard my teenage relatives to watch. Movies in theaters do have mandated content warnings, but it seems that even non R rated movies show a lot more today than they did 20 years ago. This contributes to what I would consider the Sexualization of our current Society. The question for me is whether or not added exposure to sex, especially to teens and young adults contributes to deviant behavior.When applying Functionalist Theory, and the idea that society relies upon its members to have order, stability and an agreement on what values are and how they should be achieved, I cant help but wonder to what extent does the exposed sexualization of our culture have an impact on that stability. While our text does not indicate an increase in sex amongst youth in new years, there is still a notable difference generationally speaking.This difference isnt necessarily in the act of sex itself, but it our pop culture, in our mass communication online, in text messages and face to face conversations. If our society is to continue with overt sexualization as it has beenwhat will be the outcome? result more teens have sex, will deviant sexual behavior hold out more and more prevalent? What mechanism should be employed to continue the latter from happening? (Anderson/ Taylor 2011). References Andersen, M. L. , and H. F. Taylor. Sociology, the Essentials. 6. Belmont, CA Wadsworth Publishing Co, 2010. Print