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Behind Closed Doors: Unpacking College Students’ Complex Relationships With Pornography Consumption, Samantha K. Saucier May 2018

Behind Closed Doors: Unpacking College Students’ Complex Relationships With Pornography Consumption, Samantha K. Saucier

Honors College

This thesis is a quantitative and qualitative study of University of Maine students attitudes and consumption habits of pornography. It contains a literature review of anti-pornography feminism from the Second Wave, as well as an overview of sex-positive and sex-critical theories of pornography from more recent years. The goal of the thesis is to understand how sex-negative and/or sex-positive ideas have or have not permeated college student’s understanding of pornography. Over 800 students were surveyed about pornography consumption through the Psychology Department’s Fall prescreen. 4 students from the survey, who all happened to be women, were interviewed about their relationships …


2017 Minutes Of The Student Women's Association, The Feminist Collective Jan 2018

2017 Minutes Of The Student Women's Association, The Feminist Collective

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Minutes from the Student Women's Association (SWA) meetings dating from January 23, 2017 to January 29, 2018. In August 2017, the SWA membership voted to change the club name to the Feminist Collective.