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Purifying empire : obscenity and the politics of moral regulation in Britain, India and Australia
\"Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It charts how a particular bio-political project, namely the drive to regulate the obscene in late nineteenth-century Britain, was transformed from a national into a global and imperial venture and then re-localized in two different colonial contexts, India and Australia, to serve decidedly different ends. While a considerable body of work has demonstrated both the role of empire in shaping moral regulatory projects in Britain and their adaptation, transformation and, at times, rejection in colonial contexts, this book illustrates that it is in fact only through a comparative and transnational framework that it is possible to elucidate both the temporalist nature of colonialism and the political, racial and moral contradictions that sustained imperial and colonial regimes\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Blasphemy
[...]when a train passes along the railroad tracks that run parallel to the highway, we hear its whistle. The fish is served alongside the potatoes that I hadn't had to peel, and my brother says, \"She hit one past the garden today? and my mother smiles at him for being kind to me, and my father says, \"Is that so?\" and my brother says, \"Yes, past the strawberry patch even? and it is all, as I said, nothing short of perfect as forks hit plates and fingers pick small bones off the delicious white fish. What's worse, home base and the pitcher's mound are green with grass, the only fish my mother fries come randomly as gifts from the neighbors, my father looks more of bone than muscle, and my brother has been dead some twenty years. Out of the scalding hot water I pull each of the jars and lovingly pour my warm peaches into them.
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Problematic Use of Pornography: Clinical Presentations, Diagnosis and Interventions
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused immense psychosocial strain worldwide. Excessive use of the internet during these psychologically trying times, fueled by physical isolation as a result of lockdowns, translated into dysfunctional behaviors. A growing body of evidence suggests an unprecedented increase in internet use and consumption of online pornography during the pandemic, and possibly even directly caused by it. This presentation will focus on the the statistics, variations in diagnostic criteria, clinical presentations and interventions for problematic online pornography use. Practical solutions will be offered to show how foresightedness with utilizing existing tools and therapies and exercising appropriate amounts of caution could go a long way in addressing the challenges that lie ahead in the post-pandemicera.Disclosure of InterestNone Declared
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Dirt for Art's Sake
In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors.What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated them as filth and later celebrated them as.
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\The New Weapon of Choice\: Law's Current Inability to Properly Address Deepfake Pornography
Deepfake technology uses artificial intelligence to realistically manipulate videos by splicing one person's face onto another's. While this technology has innocuous usages, some perpetrators have instead used it to create deepfake pornography. These creators use images ripped from social media sites to construct--or request the generation of--a pornographic video showcasing any woman who has shared images of herself online. And while this technology sounds complex enough to be relegated to Hollywood production studios, it is rapidly becoming free and easy-to-use. The implications of deepfake pornography seep into all facets of victims' lives. Not only does deepfake pornography shatter these victims' sexual privacy, its online permanency also inhibits their ability to use the internet and find a job. Although much of the scholarship and media attention on deepfakes has been devoted to the implications of deepfakes in the political arena and the attendant erosion of our trust in the government, the implications of deepfake pornography are equally devastating. This Note analyzes the legal remedies available to victims, concludes that none are sufficient, and proposes a new statutory and regulatory framework to provide adequate redress.
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Filthy material : modernism and the media of obscenity
\"Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity. The trials of figures like James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall loom large in accounts twentieth century literature. Filthy Material: Modernism and The Media of Obscenity reveals the ways that debates about obscenity and literature were shaped by changes in the history of media. Judgments about obscenity, which hinged on understanding how texts were circulated and read, were often proxies for the changing place of literature in an age of new technological media. The emergence of film, photography, and new printing technologies shaped how \"literary value\" was understood, altering how obscenity was defined and which texts were considered obscene. Filthy Material rereads the history of obscenity in order to discover a history of technological media behind debates about moral corruption and sexual explicitness. The shift from the intense censorship of the early twentieth century to the effective \"end of obscenity\" for literature at the middle of the century, it argues, is not simply a product of cultural liberalization but of a changing media ecology. Filthy Material brings together media theory and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist obscenity and novel readings of works of modernist literature. It sheds new light on figures at the center of modernism's obscenity trials (such as Joyce and Lawrence), demonstrates the relevance of the discourse obscenity to understanding figures not typically associated with obscenity debates (like T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis), and introduces new figures to our account of modernism (like Norah James and Jack Kahane). It reveals how modernist obscenity reflected a contest over the literary in the face of new media technologies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Obscenity detection transformer for detecting inappropriate contents from videos
With the availability of a wide range of images and videos on the Internet, classification and detection of inappropriate content has become a matter of serious concern. This type of content has a harmful impact on the minds of minors as well as on adults. Therefore, it is necessary to control and detect such content from images and videos. Recent research has focused on deep-learning-based automated pornographic detection, a bold move to replace humans in the time-consuming task of moderating online content. This paper is based on the idea that incorporating detailed information into a model helps solve the problem of mapping pornographic content. In this paper, a novel deep-learning transformer-based framework namely, Obscenity Detection Transformer (ODT) is proposed to detect and classify inappropriate or pornographic content from videos. The proposed transformer inputs video frames and leverages the vision transformer with the LSTM layer. LSTM embedding enables the network to extract more informative features. Also, GELU activation-based MLP is employed to classify pornographic and non-pornographic content. The advantage of leveraging transformer-based architecture is that these architectures improve efficiency and accuracy when compared with CNN-based models. To validate the efficiency and efficacy of the proposed model, extensive experiments are carried out on Pornography-2 k and Pornography-800 datasets. The proposed model outperforms the current state-of-the-art (CNN) in terms of computational efficiency and accuracy. The accuracies achieved for the two aforementioned datasets are 99.6% and 98.8%, respectively.
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