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Title:
Debating pornography / Andrew Altman, Lori Watson.
Author:
Altman, Andrew, 1950- author.

Watson, Lori, 1972- author.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

©2019
Call Number:
HQ471 .A48 2019
ISBN:
9780199358717

9780199358700
Series:
Debating ethics

Debating ethics.
Physical Description:
x, 323 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Part I. Pornography and the right of sexual autonomy / Andrew Altman -- Sex, speech, and autonomy -- Overview -- What are rights? -- Sexual autonomy : pleasure, intimacy, and hardwiring -- Our sticky and oozy selves -- Obscenity and pornography -- Obscenity -- The meanings of "pornography" -- Eroticizing inequality -- Pornography consumption as a form of sex -- Evidence and harm -- Personal testimony and the question of causality -- The experimental studies -- Population-level studies -- Rates of reported rape in the internet era -- Alcohol and its social harms -- Slasher movies and the Rolling Stones -- The MacKinnon-Dworkin Ordinance -- Pornography as subordinating speech -- Conclusion : the big historical picture -- Part II. A defense of a sex equality approach to pornography / Lori Watson -- Sex, equality, and pornography -- Equality -- Gender as power -- Sexuality, gender, and power -- The ordinances -- The causes of action -- Subordination -- Pornography -- The pornography industry -- Empirical evidence of harm -- Production harms -- Consumption harms -- Population-level studies -- Defenses of pornography -- Free speech defense of pornography -- Equality within the First Amendment -- "Feminist" critiques of the sex equality approach to pornography -- Canadian law and the gay and lesbian argument -- Do we have a "right" to pornography? -- Conclusion.
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