Pornography

American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Pornography has existed all over the world for all recorded time, and now porn websites are visited by an estimated 60 million Americans every month. With each new technological advancement, porn soon follows, and each generation subsequently fears for our vulnerable women and our uncontrollable men. For this episode, we’ll spend most of our time in the 1970s, also known as the “Golden Age of Porn,” when America was introduced to Andy Warhol’s Blue Movie, Deep Throat, Playboy, and Hustler. We’ll explore the subsequent feminist and fundamentalist fallout and the war on porn in the 1980s, spurred on by a surprising gruesome advocate. Porn has long been charged with corrupting the youth as well as normalizing, glorifying, and even causing sexual violence. Today we ask the question: What does porn do to us, or more accurately, what can porn make us do? American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Produced and edited by Clear Commo Studios Research and cowriting assisted by Riley Smith Co-Produced by Miranda Zickler Show art by Roache Voice Acting by Will Rogers Become a Patron for extra episodes, interviews, and videos monthly! Follow American Hysteria on social media: Twitter: @AmerHysteria Instagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this season we'll be exploring our bizarre beliefs, unfounded fears, and fantastical thinking,
0:14.9	how they shape our psychology and culture, and how much of our past we can find in the
0:19.5	present.
0:20.5	I'm your host, Chelsea Weber-Smith, and this is American hysteria.
0:25.9	Some would say we're drowning in a sea of garbage, others say we're being liberated.
0:29.9	Strategies of sexual abuse were both planned and communicated to a population of men who
0:36.9	were going to go out and do them.
0:38.9	I'm not afraid I'm going so far.
0:40.9	I'm not going too well, I'm bringing some up behavior that is just terrible to describe.
0:47.9	Warning!
0:48.9	This video contains adult content not suitable for children.
0:50.9	Girls Gone Wild travels here around coast to coast, meaning thousands of odd cohorts
0:54.8	to find the cutest sexiest girls in the country.
0:57.9	These are the kind of girls you've always wanted to meet, just the way you want to make
1:01.9	it and ready to go wild!
1:10.9	Like most of my peers, as a preteen, I saw almost daily ads for the mail order VHS service
1:16.9	Girls Gone Wild, in which barely legal college girls would flash the camera, make-out, take
1:23.6	showers together, etc.
1:25.8	In generations past, before the internet, before VHS tapes, kids and teenagers got their
1:31.0	hands on porno mags from under their dad's mattress, staring into a wild blue yonder of
1:36.5	this strange thing called sex.
1:39.1	These Girls Gone Wild videos gave me pause, even as a kid, and though they certainly had
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