Word: porn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peep-show porn is not the only bad influence, according to some commissioners. Several panelists are equally troubled by the sexually sadistic aesthetic that has crept into general-market films, such as Dressed to Kill and the more recent 9 1/2 Weeks. Commission Member Park Dietz, who teaches at the University of Virginia Law School, believes that film and television scenes portraying women in violent situations are "every bit as harmful as anything in the adults-only establishments...
...causal link between pornography and violence. The report contradicts a more extensive 1970 study that disputed that link, and the American Civil Liberties Union has condemned the latest findings as pro- censorship. Dissenting Commissioner Judith Becker contends that "social science literature does not show that exposure to porn causes a person to commit sexual crimes." She and Panel Member Ellen Levine, editor of Woman's Day magazine, plan to file a written dissent sometime this week. A national dialogue on pornography, says Levine, is important and necessary...
TALKING ABOUT DESIRE is not easy, because feminists have corned the market on talking about sexuality. In the March issue of Harpers, Philip Weiss writes about the difficulty of discussing the issue of pornography during the 1984 anti-porn campaign in Minneapolis...
...familiar "freedom of the press" counter-argument has opposed these laws. It has been less frequently noted, however, that the causal connection between pornography and rape is tenuous, at best. When the the Supreme Court affirmed that the Indianapolis version of these anti-porn laws was unconstitutional, it did so solely on First Amendment grounds...
...court's latest actions will hardly dampen official antiporn efforts. Indeed, as part of the ongoing work of the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography, Edwin Meese last week approved a new $100,000 study of porn's antisocial impact. But the court did seem to signal what it believes is a constitutional approach. As UCLA Law Professor Henry McGee describes it, the emerging doctrine appears to be "If people want it, they can have it. But they shouldn't subject everyone else...