This paper has three goals. The first is to defend Tristan Taormino and Erika Lust (or some of their films) from criticisms that Rebecca Whisnant Hans Maes make them. Toward end, I will be arguing against the narrow conceptions seem have what “feminist” pornography must like. More generally, hope show by example why it important take pornographic films seriously as if we're understand po...

This paper tries to symbolically evaluate the character, Alexi Alexandrovich Karenin, as an ideal husband figure in comparison with other characters from movie Anna Karenina (2012) which is adaptation of well-known novel by prominent author, Leo Tolstoy. Here, dramatic focus not just bestowed protagonist and her lover, instead side lined betrayed meek character his true heart valued ideal. The ...

The purpose of this study is to explore the conceptual Maqãshid Syari’ah developed by an Egyptian fiqh expert Muhammad Abdul Athî Ali, and its implications in reconstructing as effort respond symptoms new social phenomena today’s society. Recently, there have been many community activities labeled Islam, but at practical level, they are indicated be contrary principles Islamic teachings. One th...

Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution blends romance, suspense, politics and spy war. Despite its complicated braided storylines, the camera shots, movements dialogues in it are rather simple concise. Music has become a non-verbal discourse through which myriad of unexpressed inner thoughts is subtly conveyed. Its original scores classical compositions created sorrowful, obscure, heavy atmosphere depict...

Sexual arousal is a motivational state that moves humans toward situations that inherently pose a risk of disease transmission. Disgust is an emotion that adaptively moves humans away from such situations. Incongruent is the fact that sexual activity is elementary to human fitness yet involves strong disgust elicitors. Using an experimental paradigm, we investigated how these two states interac...