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Condemning Pornography in the Open, Enjoying it in Secrete: A Content Analysis of Online Commenters’ Perceptions of Soft Porn in Nollywood Films

Social and Basic Sciences Research Review

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Title Condemning Pornography in the Open, Enjoying it in Secrete: A Content Analysis of Online Commenters’ Perceptions of Soft Porn in Nollywood Films
 
Creator Endong, Floribert Patrick C.
Vareba, Anthony Leva
 
Subject Nollywood Film Industry, Pornography, Spiral of Silence, Social Judgment, Sex,
 
Description This paper presents the content analysis of a corpus of 300 comments posted by Nigerians on social networks to formulate their views on the injection of pornographic content in Nollywood films. It principally seeks to show to what extent Nigerians may openly formulate their opinions on such sensitive issues as sex (non-)anonymously, without fear of social ostracism or stigmatization. It equally seeks to show the importance of conservative (religious and liberal) arguments in the debate on pornography in Nollywood film industry. The paper argues that conservative opinions on pornography in Nollywood remain dominant. However, liberal views on the issue are somehow considerable. Such liberal views are more and more expressed in the open, (with identity being disclosed), despite the predominance of conservatism and the risks of stigmatization and ostracism (social isolation). The recurrent tendency by Nigerians to express liberal views (through social networks) about pornography points to the fact that audiences are more and more motivated or ready to break taboos over pornography in particular, and sex in general. Most of the views in support of porn in Nollywood movies revolve around the rejection of traditional beliefs about sex, which indicates greater adherence of audiences to the theory of the evolution (dynamic nature) of cultures. Religious views over pornography are also becoming less dominant despite the fact that Nigeria is considered a religious nation. Most conservative opinions are based on the negative effects of porn on the quality of films.
 
Publisher Academy of Business & Scientific Research (ABSR)
 
Date 2015-10-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/sbsrr/article/view/557
 
Source Social and Basic Sciences Research Review; Vol 3 No 10 (2015): October; 354-363
2313-6758
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/sbsrr/article/view/557/578
 
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