Pornography

Pornography Pornography, can be defined as sexually explicit pictures, writing or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. Until recent times pornography was mainly accessible through print, though with the advances in technology today almost any individual can now obtain a variety of graphic images through the internet. In “This is a Naked Lady”, Van Der Leun touches on the controversial topic of pornography on the net. Tracing back through time the growth and immergence of such material into the popular culture, Van Der Leun asserts that the lewd art form is now more than ever becoming a part of society, rather than merely a favorite past time. As time progressed, both technology and man developed, together furthering the development of pornography. Creating a stylistic timeline, Van Der Leun shows the series of events and cultures which helped shape porn to be what it is today. Tracing pornography from past to present, one can discover that it is not a new thing, but rather an ancient art form. Analyzing earlier societies, Van Der Leun reveals the artistic aspect of pornography to Neolithic paintings, comparing similar modern day images to that of “prehistoric sculptures of females with pendulous breasts der, van, pornography, leun, sex, images, society, now, new, time, virus, through, technology, rather, leuns, drive, adult, whether, transformation, tracing, today, similar, sexualized, porn, point, past, part, out, online, one, naked, merely, male, individual, form