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MEDIA BRIEF: Censorship, sexuality and the internet

APC
APC on 9 August, 2011 - 14:40
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What is sexual content on the interneti? What are sexuality and sexual rightsi? Which communications rights are critical for people's sexual rights? What are the most common threats to people's sexual rights? What are some of the methods and impacts of censorship of "sexual content" on the internet? These and other issues are highlighted by the media brief published by APC as part of the EroTICsi research.

 
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EROTICS: Sex, rights and the internet - an exploratory research study

Jac sm Kee et al
Jac sm Kee et al on 9 August, 2011 - 13:47
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*Editor:* Jac sm Kee Authors: Manjima Bhattacharjya, Sonia Corrêa, Melissa Ditmore, Kevicha Echols, Maya Indira Ganesh, Marina Maria, Nicolene McLean, Nadine Moawad, Relebohile Moletsane, Jeanne Prinsloo, Tamara Qiblawi, Jandira Queiroz, Horacio Sívori, Bruno Zilli

How is the interneti a key public sphere for the struggle for sexual citizenship and the exercise of sexual rightsi? What is its value to a diversity of users, especially those most marginalised or discriminated against because of their sexual, gender ior other forms of social identity? Why do arguments for the regulationi of the internet anchor on the moral imperative to regulate sexuality? Who are the key actors influencing processes of decision making, and what are the ways in which the potentially liberatory impact of the internet is being constricted and narrowed? The 3 year EROTICSi research project delves into the complex world of sexuality and internet regulation, and uncovers interesting insights to these questions from Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa and the US. The full research findings and a synthesis chapter is presented in this report.

 
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Some reflections on erotica and internet: the feminist perspective

Mabel Bianco
Mabel Bianco on 8 August, 2011 - 21:14 on 8 August, 2011 - 21:14
Mabel Bianco is president and founder of the Foundation for Study and Research on Women (FEIM-Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer) in Argentina. She is a physician and researcher, and has worked since the 1970s in gender and health. She headed up several programs in the public sphere and is a consultant for various national and international organisations as well as agencies in the United Nations system.

The experience of researching and examining issues of sexuality in the interneti was very important for me and the Foundation for Study and Research on Women (FEIM). Personally, I have always worked, studied, researched and written on sexuality, especially in women from childhood to old age, but regarding the effect on their lives and reproduction. Never before had I personally explored the intersection between the form of communication enabled by internet and sexuality, how this affects and impacts the lives of women.

Mabel Bianco accounts what the experience of researching and examining issues of sexuality in the interneti mean to her and her organization - the Foundation for Study and Research on Women (FEIM): " Personally, I have always worked, studied, researched and written on sexuality, especially in women from childhood to old age, but regarding the effect on their lives and reproduction. Never before had I personally explored the intersection between the form of communication enabled by internet and sexuality, how this affects and impacts the lives of women."

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India: Government should get out of the way

Grady
Grady on 29 July, 2011 - 13:17
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The net has often been portrayed by the media in India as "being a lair of sexual predators". Grady looks at some of the contradictions between policyi and practice that were revealed by the EROTICSi research in India, which explored the ways that young women negotiate risks online as they strategically use the interneti to explore, define and challenge boundaries of gender iand sexual norms.

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Brazil: An ethnographic approach – mapping sexuality on Orkut

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 29 July, 2011 - 10:23
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Flavia is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.

Flavia Fascendini explores two communities on the Orkut social networkingi site on sexuality: one is a forum for anti-lesbian prejudice, and the second is a community aimed at legitimising romantic relationships between adults and adolescents. Both groups were studied as the part of the Brazilian EROTICSi research project that focused on mapping the dynamic and complex policyi shifts on interneti regulationi debates in Brazil.

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Internet in South Africa is more than meets the eye

Grady
Grady on 26 July, 2011 - 16:11 · Africa
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Grady gives a glimpse into the final research of the EROTICSi research in South Africa that explored lesbians and transgender people use of the Interneti, and how content regulationi measures can constrain the internet's democratising and empowering potential for LGBTIi persons in the country.

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Online pornography and sex education: Reflections on practice in Poland and the US

Kevicha Echols
Kevicha Echols on 8 July, 2011 - 16:33
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EroTICs project researcher from United States. Doctoral Candidate, Widener University, Human Sexuality Education Program.

Kevicha Echols reflects on porn literary and sex education for young people at a IASSCS session, comparing the sharings with what she discovered through the EROTICSi research in the US.

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EROTICS in Brazil: The complex universe of sexuality on the internet

Flavia Fascendini
Flavia Fascendini on 28 June, 2011 - 11:30
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Flavia Fascendini is a social communicator. Since January 2007, she works as the GenderIT.org Spanish/Portuguese site editor.
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Sexuality Policyi Watch and the Latin American Centre on Sexuality and Human Rightsi teamed up together to conduct the EroTICsi research in Brazil. In an interview with Flavia Fascendini, they talked about their participation in the project as an opportunity to address the nuanced impact of new Interneti legislation on sexuality. They approached this complex issue from two sides: looking at legislative and public policy on the one hand, and at expressions of sexual minorities on the other. Their next step will be to discuss the findings with other researchers and actors in the fields of communications, gender iand sexual rightsi.

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CREA

Website: http://www.creaworld.org

CREA (Creating Resources for Empowermenti in Action) is a feminist human rightsi organisation, founded in the year 2000, based in New Delhi, India. It focus on empowerment of women and women's human rightsi defenders through a series of workshops that focus on strengthening feminist leadership, changing public attitudes and addressing social exclusion.

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Bekhsoos

Website: http://www.bekhsoos.com

The queeri Arab magazine Bekhsoos allows LBQ women and transgendered persons to share their stories and break the silence surrounding issues of (homo)sexuality in the Arab world.

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