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From: kstevens@latour.DEC (Ken Stevens 297-5342)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: re: Pornography definition?
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 01:37:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 19 01:37:13 1985
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I thought our ordinance writers or whoever does such things have prohressed
farther than this... Apparently men's pictures in similar poses aren't
considered pornographic...




 
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.