Global Challenges and Opportunities Facing Children, Youth and Families, June 2013, Wheelock College, Boston

1. BOYS WILL BE BOYS
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE
“JOHN”
Gail Dines
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2. Glamorize
Ignore
Gloss Over
Rehabilitate
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4. Pretty Woman
Part Two?
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5. Kristen
Stewart
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6. Jessica Alba
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8. Jodi Foster
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9. Penelope Cruz
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12. 26 Oscar Nominations for
Playing Prostitutes
16 WON!!!!
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13. Question?
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22. How did Jack, Charlie,
Tiger, Eliot, Hugh,
Jerry, and Eddie
become a
JOHN?
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23. Sex Trafficking and Porn
Pornography is the Major form of Sex Ed in Western World
• Cultural/Visual Legitimacy For Buying and
Selling Women
• The Concrete Depiction/Documentation Of
Prostituted Sex
• Generic, formulaic, plasticized, mindnumbing
• Desensitizes users away from Intimacy
• The Actual Use of Trafficked Women
A Central Feeder for Demand
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