From: kadie@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (Fwd:) Newsgroups: alt.censorship,alt.feminism Subject: [alt.pagan] anti-censorship feminism Followup-To: alt.censorship,alt.feminism,alt.pagan Date: 14 May 1994 22:25:13 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 42 Message-ID: <2r3j49$pqi@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Originator: kadie@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu [A repost - Carl] Newsgroups: alt.pagan From: alma+@cs.cmu.edu (Alma Whitten) Subject: anti-censorship feminism Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 20:00:08 GMT Not really on-topic, except insofar as pagans are a bastion of sex-positive feminism, but I want to strongly recommend a book I just got and read: Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism, Alison Assiter & Avedon Carol, Pluto Press, 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AAA In particular, there is a chapter titled "Mystery and Imagination: the Case of Pornography Effects Studies" which completely shreds the scientific backing claimed by the Dworkin/MacKinnon camp for pornography increasing the likelihood of violence against women. For example: "In any event, the fairly strong consensus among researchers is that sex offenders invariably had *less* exposure to pornography than the average male - a point accepted even by the Meese Commission (Walker, 1970; Cook et al., 1971; Kant and Goldstein, 1978; Meese Commission, 1986)." "Likewise, when Leonard and Taylor attempted to replicate the study five years later, males aggressed against the female confederate only after she had continually made comments which implied she wished to act out the scenes in the pornography viewed, but at the same time contemptuously gave the male subjects higher and higher levels of electric shock (Leonard and Taylor, 1983). Not only could this be seen as an act of retaliation, but no credit appears to have been given to the subjects who long delayed a retaliatory aggressive act under conditions amounting to torture." -Alma ================= end of repost ==================