PHLB05H3 Midterm: PHLB05 Exam Review
Document Summary
Violent and non-violent degrading porn causes harm to women. Violent: not all rape is b/c of porn, but porn does cause rape. Non-violent but degrading: causes sexism, women are mistreated. Other forms of media such as gun magazines are also responsible. Meese report = biased: evidence is not persuasive/week, correlation does equal causation, failed to support causal link to violence, anecdotal data: sex offenders easily blaming porn to seem less responsible/guilty. What if porn does trigger some men to rape: strossen argues that it still does not justify censorship. Studies on sex offenders: actually show that sex offenders less exposure to porn, and at a later age than most men: also likely to be raised in repressive, anti-sexual environment and find sexual images more distressing than arousing. Censorship will not repressed porn, it will still exist underground: may even become more attractive for being forbidden. That she is not pro-porn: rather pro-free speech and anti-censorship.
