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Notes on Catherine MacKinnon, “Pornography: On Morality and Politics”
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In contemporary industrial society, pornography is an industry that mass produces sexual intrusion on, sexual access to, possession and use of women by and for men for profit. It exploits women’s sexual and economic inequality for gain.
This understanding of the reality of pornography must contend not only […]

Luno is clearly willing to accept the condemnation of pornography expressed in Longino’s article, indeed, the rightness of the censure he finds rather overdetermined. But the condemnation is a condemnation of something much more than many feminists and their critics, alike, seem willing to admit.
—Editor’s note
 
Notes on:
Longino, Helen E. “Pornography, Oppression, Freedom: A Closer Look”.
Immoral…
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The […]

Notes on:
Lars O. Ericsson, “Charges against Prostitution: An Attempt at a Philosophical Assessment”
[See also

The limits of liberalism and pornography: notes on Lorenne M. G. Clark