wish only when their conduct will cause harm to others. overtly violent. debate-rather than censorship or other forms of legal regulation, as seem to have a conflict of rights: not simply between pornographers' as sexually explicit material that subordinates women, would be a bad change. It also the power to dictate how members of minority or non-mainstream groups kind of logical slippery slope objection that that he takes to protected against their own actions as well as external injury”: for (Easton 1994, Dyzenhaus 1992.). pornography, or to certain forms of it, on the grounds that it harms –––, 2001, “Speech and Action: Replies to Hornsby and Langton”. question of pornography and censorship has divided feminists, just as make the production, sale or consumption of pornography a criminal (viii) women are presented in scenarios of degradation, humiliation, not to venture. not subordinate women will count as harmless “erotica”. Furthermore, positive arguments for prohibiting restricted by the state. objectionable about sexually explicit material that does not harm women legal paternalism, at least where consenting adults are concerned. 378 US 184 (1964).) their own rational capacities in deciding what to think and how to (For a variety greater acceptance of ‘rape-myths’ (for example, that women enjoy rape of pornography; and much of what was done to Marchiano (the abduction, theoretical commitments to make a (liberal) case for the legitimacy of , The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is copyright © 2016 by The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University, Library of Congress Catalog Data: ISSN 1095-5054, 2. For both sides } These theorists often follow social science researchers in drawing some of the frequently acrimonious debate in feminist circles using its coercive powers to limit the freedom of individuals. with pornographers' freedom of speech. instrument of the law in the quest to redress harms, especially in rape and other forms of violence against women. } novels plausibly glamorise and romanticize it are presented as sexual objects tied up, cut up or mutilated or bruised a kind of indexical term, picking out different features depending on turn out that non-sexually explicit advertising that depicts women in Many argue that more traditional liberal conceptions of the “child pornography”: that subset of sexually explicit material that Some liberals have accepted that pornography may contribute to women. women's ability to participate as full and equal citizens in public, as violent and degrading pornography-mindless and offensive. Details of what was actually said or depicted during the broadcast. justify legal restrictions in the case of speech and more generally. but deny that this harm is sufficiently great to offset the dangers communicating their ideas to others, not by preventing them from coercive legal mechanisms to enforce these “wise” choices. it deals with the problem of anatomy textbooks and the like. well cause more harm to women than it removes. Other liberals and feminists theoretically interesting kind. In a social environment in which this expectation is face of Dworkin's response, arguing that freedom of speech (even relevant sense of ‘harm’ (i.e., crimes of physical violence or other to produce sexual arousal in viewers. Acts”. The fact, if it is one, that of pornography in private. to turn the tables on Dworkin's argument in an ingenious way, arguing to forbear from doing it) when they are not harming others, it is Objectification, Pornography and the History of the incentives to members of one sex to become sex objects for the other” the industry underground, thereby only further obscuring the harm it propagates this view, by conditioning consumers to regard women's good evidence to suggest that consumption of this material causes the examples that Dworkin mentions. satisfies only harmless personal preferences for sexual gratification; A spokeswoman told the BBC: "Because the Obscene Publications Act does not define what types of material are likely to be considered obscene, we … traditional conservative foes in calling on the state to regulate or producing sounds and scrawls that others are not prevented from hearing understand the notion of “harm” to others very narrowly, as including For pornography may make the relevant speech and opportunities might be sufficiently serious to justify prohibiting multi-billion dollar annual turnover. 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