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Sasha Grey, Sigmund Freud and Johann Wolfgang Won Goerte: The Primal Scene Revisited—A Case Report
Author(s)
James Bozzuto
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2011.01.003
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University of Connecticut, Connecticut, USA
ABSTRACT
There
is a vast number of studies and a plethora of scholarly literature on various
aspects of pornography and particularly Internet pornography. Most have focused
on the negative outcomes related to individual functioning. There are few that
examine the consequences for the offspring of Internet pornography performers. Freud
postulated that for children who become “witnesses of sexual intercourse
between their parents”, the primal scene, “arrive in every case at the same
conclusion. They adopt what might be called a sadistic view of coition” (Freud,
1908, p. 220). One hundred years later, these observations and conclusions need
to be reconsidered. In our current social media climate, more and more of our
lives are being recorded in perpetuity. The Internet is everywhere and forever
(Paul, 2005). YouTube, Twitter, Flicker, cell phone cameras, etc., provided the
technology for recording and storing our everyday lives in ways that were
unimaginable 20 years ago. Our private sexual lives can be recorded and viewed
by adults and children. Individuals who work in pornography are creating a
lasting legacy that will be viewed by their children and will have lasting
effects on those children. These children certainly be exposed to the primal scene
and the lasting psychological sequela will be profound. A single case report
will be presented and an actual performer will be profiled.
KEYWORDS
Sasha Grey, pornography, primal scene, children of pornography actors
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