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Subject: Re: Proposed pornography ordinance
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 13:14:38 EST
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> 
> The following is a definition of pornography taken from a proposed
> anti-pornography ordinance (see the article titled "Re: At Last: Sojourner
> on Dworkin-MacKinnon" in net.women for more details):
> > 
> >      "Pornography is the graphic sexually explicit  subordination
> > of  women through pictures and/or words that also includes one or
> > (i) women  are  presented  dehumanized  as
> > sexual  objects,  things,  or  commodities;  or  
> > (ii)  women  are
> > presented as sexual objects who enjoy  pain  or  humiliation;  or
> > (iii) women are presented as sexual objects who experience sexual
> > pleasure in being raped; or 
> > (iv) women are  presented  as  sexual objects tied up or cut
> > up or mutilated or bruised or physically hurt; or
> > (v) women are presented in postures  of  sexual  submis-
> > sion,  servility,  or  display;  or  
> > (vi)  women's  body  parts--
> > including but not limited to vagina,  breasts,  or  buttocks--are
> > exhibited  such  that  women are reduced to those parts; or 
> > (vii) women are presented as whores by  nature;  or  
> > (viii)  women  are
> > presented as being penetrated by objects or animals; or
> > (ix) women are presented in scenarios of  degradation,  injury,  
> > torture, shown  as filthy or inferior, bleeding, bruised or hurt in
> > a context that makes these conditions sexual.

Who wrote this, Gloria Steinem?  This is the most sexist piece of BS
I've ever seen.  If the word "women" is replaced by "men" or "children",
is it then not pornography?  Too bad the ERA didn't pass, then this would
be clearly unconstitutional.