Many pornographic works seem to count as works of fiction. This apparent fact has been thought to have important implications for ongoing controversies about whether some pornography carries problematic messages and so influences the attitudes (and perhaps even the behaviour) of its audience. In this study, I explore the claim that pornographic works are fictional and the significance that this claim has for these issues, with a particular focus on pornographic films. Two related morals will emerge. First, we need to pay attention not merely to whether entire pornographic works should be classified as fictional, but to the way that pornographic fictions (like fictional works more generally) have both fictional and non‐fictional elements. Second, we have to understand the ways that pornographic works can blur the lines between fiction and non‐fiction, misleading their audiences into taking their fictional elements to be revealing truths about non‐fictional reality. In the case of pornographic films, we will examine how a pornographic fiction can be portrayed by people having sex on camera, and the ways in which this portrayal can mislead viewers about sex in the non‐fictional world.

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线条模糊：色情作品有多虚构？

许多色情作品似乎都算作小说作品。人们认为这一明显的事实对正在进行的有关某些色情制品是否携带有问题的信息是否会影响听众的态度（甚至可能影响其行为）的争论产生了重要的影响。在这项研究中，我探讨了色情作品是虚构的主张，以及该主张对这些问题的重要性，特别是对色情电影的关注。两种相关的道德观念将会出现。首先，我们不仅要注意是否将整个色情作品都归类为虚构作品，还需要关注色情小说（更普遍地类似于小说作品）同时具有虚构和非虚构元素的方式。第二，我们必须了解色情作品如何模糊小说与非小说之间的界线，误导听众利用他们的小说元素来揭示关于非小说现实的真相。对于色情电影，我们将研究在镜头前做爱的人如何描写色情小说，以及这种描写如何在非虚构的世界中误导观众有关性的内容。