{"title":"Pornography is going on-line : the harm principle in Dutch law","authors":"C. Maris","doi":"10.4314/LDD.V17I1.1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The pornography of 19th century Victorian society, Steven Marcus observes in The Other Victorians, gave expression to a fantasy that exactly mirrored the public ideal image of chastity in reverse reflection. As exemplary of Victorian morality, Marcus refers to an 1857 treatise on human sexuality, The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs, by the physician William Acton. Unlike Freud, Acton maintained that healthy children hardly manifest any sexual feelings. For youngsters who give in to titillations an ill fate awaits: \"His intellect has become sluggish and enfeebled, and if his evil habits are persisted in, he may end in becoming a drivelling idiot or a peevish valetudinarian.\"","PeriodicalId":341103,"journal":{"name":"Law, Democracy and Development","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Law, Democracy and Development","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/LDD.V17I1.1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The pornography of 19th century Victorian society, Steven Marcus observes in The Other Victorians, gave expression to a fantasy that exactly mirrored the public ideal image of chastity in reverse reflection. As exemplary of Victorian morality, Marcus refers to an 1857 treatise on human sexuality, The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs, by the physician William Acton. Unlike Freud, Acton maintained that healthy children hardly manifest any sexual feelings. For youngsters who give in to titillations an ill fate awaits: "His intellect has become sluggish and enfeebled, and if his evil habits are persisted in, he may end in becoming a drivelling idiot or a peevish valetudinarian."
史蒂文·马库斯在《其他维多利亚人》一书中指出,19世纪维多利亚社会的色情作品表达了一种幻想,这种幻想恰恰反映了公众理想中的贞洁形象。作为维多利亚时代道德的典范,马库斯引用了1857年医生威廉·阿克顿(William Acton)关于人类性行为的专著《生殖器官的功能和失调》(The functional and Disorders of Reproductive Organs)。与弗洛伊德不同,阿克顿认为健康的孩子几乎不会表现出任何性情感。对贪图享乐的年轻人来说,恶运就在后面等着他:“他的智力已经变得迟钝和衰弱,如果他的坏习惯坚持下去,他最终可能会成为一个喋喋不休的白痴或一个脾气暴躁的老年痴呆症患者。”