Pornography | Anti-Pornography Feminists Do Not Harm the Women’s Movement

Ann E. Menasche is a feminist and civil rights lawyer. She argues in the following viewpoint that most of the efforts of anti-pornography feminists support the central objective of the women’s movement: equal rights for women. She contends that all feminists should oppose pornography because it is hate speech that encourages sexual violence against women. Feminists who resort to name-calling and misrepresentation of the anti-pornography stance threaten to shut down the feminist debate about sexuality and pornography’s effects on women, she argues.

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