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Since the 1950s, the US has become obsessed with its own consumer culture. Even experiences, such as prison life, have been commodified. People will pay to spend a weekend at the Academy in Alpharetta, GA, an institution that sells "the prison experience." Prison clothing has long been a hot fashion item among the rapper set, while several chambers of commerce have marketed their state's prisons as "must see" tourist destinations. By turning prison life into pop culture, mass imprisonment has become acceptable, & it is difficult for at-risk youth to understand that prisons are not hotels or amusement parks. If the US is to decrease (rather than continue to increase) its prison population, the welfare system must be drastically reformed & the commodification of prison life must come to an end. K. A. Larsen

Examines growing use of prison labor as a way for corporations to harness cheap labor and for prisons to turn a profit; US. Includes policy recommendations for serving the interests of the prisoners and society.

Using four separate national probability metasamples of adults in the United States, two measures of pornography consumption, two measures of sexual attitudes, and two measures of sexual behavior, this article pits two macrotheories on pornography and its behavioral effects against each other in competing, falsifiable hypothesis tests. Specifically, the article compares the libertarian theory of pornography's hypothesis that sexual attitudes are a confound of the pornography consumption—sexual behavior relationship, with the sexual scripting theory of pornography's hypothesis that sexual attitudes are a mediator of the pornography consumption—sexual behavior relationship. No evidence was found to support the argument that pornography consumption—sexual behavior relationships are spurious and due to preexisting sexual attitudes. Alternatively, analyses uniformly supported the conceptualization of sexual attitudes as a mediating link between pornography consumption and sexual behavior.