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sss t-oWarJ5 ~11.t-e..r11.at-iofi.Ai vJOr~l£-.~~.'5 D"''t Public Meetina .

Ifli-UVeALe,) Intimacy, Pornography and the Ethics of Circulation .

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Prof. Nivedita Menon, JNU.

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Suddhabrata Sengupta. Sarai, csos Prof. Sohini Ghosh, .

Film Maker, MCRC, Jamia Millia lslamia .

12 March Tonight Koyna Mess 9.30pm .....j ------.

In an age where everything, even the n1ost sublime offeelings has apJchc·market, sex has becotne thesingle largest .

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corrunodity. The unholy alliance between capitaland patriarchy is to be blamed for this intensified commodification .

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ofsex. Pornography, in the cornmon usage ofthe term, pottrays women onthe one hand, as the enchantress who .

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seduces men and on the otherhand as the passive body that bears all the pain in order to give pleasure to the men. .

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'IT-communication revolution', by not only .

-.... ;-The bizarre ways in which the po1n market has evolved with the catering to the desires ofthe viewers but also by creating particular kinds ofdesires is so typical ofthe capitalist .

strategy ofmakinguse ofeverything 'innovatively'. .

Especially in ourcontext, where sex is sti1l the subject that cannot be openly and freely talked about whetherin families orschool, pon1ography becomes the only source that moulds imaginations and (rnis)information related to the subject. This once again reinforces the stereotypes society cherishes about sex and sexuality, especially that of .

women. Ina society. where patriarchy is deep-rooted in many myriad forms and aspects, then, the woman and her body remain mystified and hence easily commodified. .

The recent incident ofthe making and circulation ofan MMS that contained some ofthe most intimate and private .

aspects ofa relationship and the response ofthe n1edia, the administration and the students in JNU provides a .

space and compels us to raise some ofthe more co1nplex questions related to pornography andits circulation. .

Anotherissue at hand is how we thinkofintimate male-female relationships and its different aspects like consent. .

~ How do we wantto place us in the triad that includes the persons being shot in such a clip, the can1era and the .

person who operates it and lhe viewers who consume it? Are there tnore complex and nuanced issues involved in .

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this scenario, since such an incident happened inan apparently gender-sensitive campus like JNU? Is there a need .

to thinkmore about themultiple ways ofpoliticization that is needed? · .

SSS Intervenes, as aforum that works to create spaces where more meaningful engagements can take place .

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between the immediate social issues and the academic social science discourse, believes that su"ch an extremely .

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unfortunate incident should force us to look deeperinto ourselves, ourdisciplines, ask new questions anddiscuss intensely, not only to find out immediate solutions but to sustain the political cultw·e ofthis crunpus where we try and transformeverything around usradically. In order to discuss these and many 1nore questions and towards commemorating the legacy ofInternational Women's Day on March 8'h, SSS Intervenes is organizing the Public Meeting on "Intimacy, Pornographyand .

the Ethics ofCirculation" tonight (March 2"d) 9.30 ptn in Koyna Mess.AU are welcome! .

for SSS lntrevenes.

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Abhiruchi, Amitagshu, Ardra, Minakshi, Sanjeev, Swastee, Ma11ab .

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