Debating Pornography.
Pornography is everywhere, and it raises a host of difficult questions. What counts as pornography, first of all? When does material cross the line from being erotic to being objectionable? Where does a person's entitlement to sexual freedom end and another person's right not to feel objec...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press USA - OSO,
2018.
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| Series: | Debating ethics.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Series; Debating Pornography; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Pornography and the Right Of Sexual Autonomy; 1. Sex, Speech, and Autonomy; 1.1 Overview; 1.2 What Are Rights?; 1.3 Sexual Autonomy: Pleasure, Intimacy, and Hardwiring; 1.4 Our Sticky and Oozy Selves; 2. Obscenity and Pornography; 2.1 Obscenity; 2.2 The Meanings of "Pornography"; 2.3 Eroticizing Inequality; 2.4 Pornography Consumption as a Form of Sex; 3. Evidence and Harm; 3.1 Personal Testimony and the Question of Causality; 3.2 The Experimental Studies; 3.3 Population-Level Studies
- 3.4 Rates of Reported Rape in the Internet Era3.5 Alcohol and Its Social Harms; 3.6 Slasher Movies and the Rolling Stones; 4. The MacKinnon-Dworkin Ordinance; 5. Pornography as Subordinating Speech; 6. Conclusion: The Big Historical Picture; References; PART II A Defense of a Sex Equality Approach to Pornography; 7. Sex, Equality, and Pornography; 7.1 Equality; 7.2 Gender as Power; 7.3 Sexuality, Gender, and Power; 7.4 The Ordinances; 7.4.1 The Causes of Action; 7.5 Subordination; 8. Pornography; 8.1 The Pornography Industry; 8.2 Empirical Evidence of Harm; 8.2.1 Production Harms
- 8.2.2 Consumption Harms8.2.3 Population-Level Studies; 9. Defenses of Pornography; 9.1 Free Speech Defense of Pornography; 9.2 Equality within the First Amendment; 9.3 "Feminist" Critiques of the Sex Equality Approach to Pornography; 9.4 Canadian Law and the Gay and Lesbian Argument; 9.5 Do We Have a "Right" to Pornography?; 10. Conclusion; References; Index