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Sexual Speech And The State: Putting Pornography In Its Place, Mary C. Dunlap
Sexual Speech And The State: Putting Pornography In Its Place, Mary C. Dunlap
Golden Gate University Law Review
This article reviews the wider legal, political and psychological consequences of the drive against "pornography". The concern of this article is that the "anti-pornography" campaign has serious and as-yet ill-considered implications for a broader category of communication, here termed "sexual speech".
Judicial Indifference To Pornography's Harm: American Booksellers V. Hudnut, Penelope Seator
Judicial Indifference To Pornography's Harm: American Booksellers V. Hudnut, Penelope Seator
Golden Gate University Law Review
This paper will evaluate the opinions of the district court and the Seventh Circuit that held that an Indianapolis ordinance violated the first amendment, with particular attention to the courts' treatment of the demonstrated harms of pornography (II). The paper argues that pornography is a practice of discrimination through which women are subordinated on the basis of sex (III). When pornography is understood in the context of social reality, it is seen as a practice of sex discrimination, just as racial segregation is understood as a practice of race discrimination when it and its meaning are seen in the context …