POLS20011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ejaculation, Catharine Mackinnon, Oxymoron
28 Jul 2018
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Religious and conservative opposition grounded in views on (im)morality, masturbation, enticement, sex outside marriage, the commodification of sexuality, social corruption, that pornography makes sex (and thus women) a commodity/ a product that can be bought and sold. Key opponents: andrea dworkin, catharine mackinnon, robin morgan, gail dines fuck. That pornography - as the name imples, porni ( prostitute ) and graphen ( to work ) - it is the recordings of prostituted women. If you"re going to oppose of sex for money (as radical feminists do) then you"re obliged to oppose pornography. Gail dines argues, pronography is the perfect propaganda piece for patriarchy. In nothing else is their hatred of us quite as clear . Operates from the position that pornography is harmful to women. Particularly in the us" freedom of speech - radical feminists took pornographers to court upon the basis of the minneapolis ordinance.
