PORN IS GOOD FOR SOCIETY: DISCURSIVE FORMATION AND INTERDISCOURSE

Abstract

We cannot deny the popularity of films of explicit sex in our society nowadays. They are seen in a negative and degrading way by some, whilst others see them with some ease and without many restrictions. The fact is that issues involving human sexuality are taboo, and became taboo because of subjects and discourses that circulate in our society and history. Because they generate controversy, these issues are often approached by many forms of media. Among them, we mention Superinteressante Magazine, which in January 2011 published an article called Porn is good for society, written by Milton Diamond.  We propose, with this work, to analyze the text using Pêcheux´s Discourse Analyzes, aiming to show how the ideologies cross the discourse of the subject in spite of his/her identification with a particular discursive formation. For this, we use assumptions of Michel Pêcheux (1995), Eni Orlandi (2003, 2007) and Denise Maldidier (2003), using concepts such as production conditions, subject, discourse, discursive formation, among others, in order to make evident the different effects of meaning and the representations of the collective imagination, which can be understood through the discursive materiality.