Porn_Analysis

Porn Analysis Pornography Issues Analysis Since the mid-1980s, a strange sight has been on the political horizon. Feminists are standing alongside their archenemies, ¡§conservatives and religious fundamentalists,¡¨ to call anti-pornography laws. This phenomenon threatens the well being of women in at least three important ways: feminism is no longer a stronghold of freedom of speech, women¡¦s unacceptable sexual choices are now under new attack, it involves rejecting the principle ¡§a woman¡¦s body, a woman¡¦s right¡¨ (McElroy). According to University of Michigan professor, Catharina MacKinnon, who helped write the law brief, ¡§in the US, the obscenity laws are all about not liking to see naked bodies, or homosexual activity, in public. Our laws in the US don¡¦t consist the harm to women. But in Canada it will now be materials that subordinate, degrade women that are obscene¡¨ (Hill and Silver). In 1983 and 1984, the Minneapolis city council passed the first civil rights antipornography ordinance written by MacKinnon and Dworkin, only to have it vetoed by the mayor both times. Then in Indianapolis the city council passed and the mayor signed the first version of the Dworkin-MacKinnon Ordinance was adopted in Bellingham, Washington by voter initiative, gathering women, pornography, selzer, dworkin, now, men, personal, essay, world, without, life, feminists, about, women¡¨s, woman¡¨s, understand, times, think, sex, reason, ordinance, new, laws, evidence, been, because, antipornography, ¡§in, york, written, way, view, very, under, two