Pornography and Stress

  • Pornography, especially in its compulsive form of viewing, is closely linked to ways of managing and reducing stress. Pornographic realism, which is the contemporary form of pornographic representation, is based on technological innovations such as photographic and digital recording of sexual reality. The description of the character of the two forms of recording demonstrates the historical development of pornographic realism. Moving away from pure psychology, we can discern in the field of human sciences the specificity of the relations between pornography and stress reduction through the distinction between the Principle of Pleasure (Lustprinzip) and the Principle of Reality (Realitätsprinzip) at the collective level or otherwise in the space of the co-being (Mitsein). On the other hand, the distance of sexual need from hunger and the plasticity of the former makes pornography a practicable way of dealing with the contradictions of ordinary existence. In sum, the above articulation explains how pornography makes the world of sexual satisfaction go hand in hand with coping with and managing stress.

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Author:Georgios Arabatzis
Parent Title (English):Conatus – Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2022), pp. 143-156. [Online ISSN 2459-3842] [ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/31971/24631]
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2022
Release Date:2024/11/29
Format:PDF-file to download
IdNo:Arabatzis_G_2022
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):free access / direkt zugänglich
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