This study aims to understand young women's attitudes and experiences regarding pornography and to provide a broader understanding of how young women relate to pornography. Itis also interpreted how young women reason about pornography from a power and gender perspective. The study is a qualitative interview study based on six interviews with women aged 20-30 years. Theories that have been used are Yvonne Hirdman's theory of gender systems and gender contracts, John H. Gagnon & William Simon's theory of sexual scripts and Norbert Elias' theory of shame. The results of the study show that there is a shame in consuming pornography as a young woman, as the societal perception is that women do not consume pornography. Furthermore, young women are ambivalent in their attitudes towards pornography, they highlight both positive and negative aspects of pornography. What seems to affect and complicate young women's pornography consumption is all the use of violence and dominance against women. There is also an ambivalence to the porn industry, where the knowledge of the actors' conditions makes it difficult to consume pornography with a good concisiousness. Finally, it can be stated that pornography provides young women with problematic ideals and norms that tend to affect them to a greater or lesser extent.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-101298 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Andersson, Sofie |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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