Regressions and Advances (Was: Re: Walzer on the Left)

Dennis Perrin dperrin at comcast.net
Fri Mar 15 11:53:51 PST 2002



> Putting a serious crimp in the multibillion dollar porn industry,
> which directly benefits large corps like AT&T, would conceivably have
> led, if the studies Mackinnon and Dworkin (and several pro-porn
> members of the judiciary as well) rely on are correct, to a decrease
> in sexual violence and other structural features of women's
> second-class status.


> Best,
> Kendall Clark

Well, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, to cite two countries where porn is illegal, have rather poor histories when it comes to the treatment of women. This causal link between porn and sexual violence has never really been proven; and while you will find porn mags and videos in the possession of a rapist or wife-beater, you'll also find drugs and alcohol, among other items (the history of the rapist/beater is also a factor). Fact is, the vast majority of porn consumers do not rape or beat women, and porn itself does not push a man who is not violent or abusive into becoming so.

DP



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