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Essay Galaxy - Pornography
Pornography
Suppose one accepts MacKinnon and Dworkin's suggested statutory
definition of pornography. How does one who generally accepts MacKinnon
and Dworkin's views on the pervasively harmful effect of pornography, and
who accepts a need for legal redress of the harms perpetrated by
pornography, deal with pornographic material?
The ordinance proposed by MacKinnon and Dworkin would deal with such
material by enacting legislation which gives people adversely affected by
the works, which clearly fit their definition of pornography, a cause of
action against the producers, vendors, exhibitors or distributors for
"trafficking", or for an assault "directly caused by the specific work.
I do not think liberals, or others for that matter, should have much
problem with the clause dealing with assault, since a causal connection to
specific works is demanded by it.....
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