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Community standards, conservatism, and judgments of pornography

1978; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 14; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00224497809550997

1559-8519

Coke R. Brown, Joan Gray Anderson, Linda Burggraf, Neal Thompson,

Gender, Feminism, and Media

Abstract In an attempt to determine if a community standard existed and to relate judgments of pornography to conservatism, scores on Wilson and Patterson's Conservatism Scale, yes‐no judgments on whether 25 pictures were or were not pornographic, and demographic data were obtained from a random sample (N = 114) of a community. Results were as follows: (1) suggestive evidence for the existence of a community standard; (2) the c‐scale correlated .57 (N = 114, p < .01) with number of pictures judged pornographic; (3) the 25 pictures met Guttman requirements of unidimensionality (reproducibility of .925); and (4) factor analysis of the pornography judgments yielded three clear‐cut factors and one ambiguous factor which were ordered along the Guttman dimension.