![]() In some cases the argument about porn is framed in terms of raw legality. ![]() Perhaps, I suppose, this is because I'm looking for some kind of intellectual absolution, but also I think it's because it concerns so many areas – free expression, gender relations, sexual psychology – that I have always found utterly fascinating. In fact I've spent a ludicrous, quite unjustifiable amount of time analysing how exactly I feel about porn. I find a lot of things about it problematic – though, admittedly, not usually at the time. I like it, but I've never viewed it uncritically. Then again, you often see people defend it on free-speech grounds while, as it were, holding their own nose: ‘Censorship is bad – though of course I would never look at that stuff.’ I find these arguments unsatisfactory, so if I begin now by saying that I really like porn, it's not to make everyone uncomfortable but to connect cards with table and also to establish my own set of dubious credentials in this area. Those arguing for it are presumed to be avid consumers. Those arguing against it tend to come across as though they merely find it distasteful on a personal level. It's hard not to speculate on the hidden motives of the people involved in any discussion, I find. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography, 1995 Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, 1989 ![]()
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