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mainstream pornography  

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  • 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]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/mainstream_pornography

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