Andrea Dworkin

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depicting violence is widely available, rape is much
lower per capita than in the United States, where violence in porn is
restricted.” Mcelroy attacks the belief that pornography cause violence,
stating that even if a correlation is present, is does not necessarily mean
there is a causal relationship. (McElroy 102)
Lynne Segal sees in inherent harm in trying to link the two together.
She believes that feminists who try to do so are wasting valuable time that
could be spent on other important issues. “In the end, anti-pornography
campaigns, feminist or not, can only enlist today, as they have invariously
enlisted before, guilt and anxiety around sex, as well as lifetimes of confusion
in our personal experiences of sexual arousal and activity.” “In contrast,
campaigns which get to the heart of men's violence and sadism towards women must
enlist the widest possible resources to empower socially.” (Gibson 19)
Another argument of Dworkin's is that pornography should not ...

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goals, because freedom of speech is the most powerful
weapon in the feminist arsenal. Medical journals used by medical students, and
the testimony of women victimized by sexual abuse are prime targets of
censorship. (Strossen 77)
An episode involving Dworkin and her cohort in censorship, Catherine
MacKinnon, demonstrates the dangers of censorship. At a symposium at A Michigan
law school, at which Dworkin and MacKinnon were speaking, a group of feminists
had prepared a series of documentaries of the topic of the conference,
prostitution. Dworkin refused to speak at the symposium if adversarial speakers
were there, so the documentaries were the only voice of opposition to ...

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