concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: mainstream pornography

mainstream pornography
type: Concept
broader: sexuality and reproduction
definition: Once a relatively small-niche market, pornography in recent years has become a mainstream, technologically sophisticated multi-billion-dollar industry, one that plays a significant role in shaping our ideas about gender and sexuality. Like many complex and politically contested concepts, pornography can be defined in a number of different ways. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Pornography, Contemporary-Mainstream]

sexuality and reproduction
type: Concept
narrower: mainstream pornography