CENSORSHIP AND FEMINISM

 

FEMINIST REDEFINITION OF PORNOGRAPHY

Indianapolis Ordinance: pornography is "the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women, whether in pictures or in words."

The focus is on "harm to women" [violence, degredation, subordination] and not the Miller test.

prurient interest and patently offensive: "However prurient and offensive these might seem to the commuity, explicit portrayals of egalitarian sexual encounters would be legalized."
Artistic merit is not a factor in giving the portrayal constitutional protection.

 

REJECTION OF THE NEW DEFINITION IN THE U.S.

Case: American Booksellers Ass'n v. Hudnut (7th Cir. 1985)

p. 28: "This is thought control . . ."

p. 30: "Racial bigotry, . . ."