when in fact I am lying undressed in bed!

To say a notion is imprinted on the mind, and yet at the same time to say that themind is ignorant of it, and never yet took notice of it, is to make this impressionnothing. No proposition can be said to be in the mind which it never yet knew, whichit was never yet conscious of

There is nothing more commonly taken for granted, than that there are certainprinciples both speculative and practical (for they speak of both) universally agreedupon by all mankind: which, therefore they argue, must needs be the constantimpressions which the souls of men receive in their first beings, and which theybring into the world with them, as necessarily and really as they do any of theirinherent faculties

the soul receives in its very first being; and brings into theworld with it.

I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is putforward by me or conceived in my mind.

. But if itwere inconsistent with his goodness to have created me such that I am deceived all thetime, it would seem equally foreign to his goodness to allow me to be deceived evenoccasionally; yet this last assertion cannot be made.

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Is he not better off in knowing his ignorance?

And how will you enquire, Socrates, into that which you do not know?What will you put forth as the subject of enquiry? And if you find what you want,how will you ever know that this is the thing which you did not know?

the divide between “media” and“culture”: part of the show’s appeal is that it makes its audience feel politi-cal, engaged, and participatory in meting out justice through the sem-blance of civic involvement.

nterpreting TCAP against these works, I propose the following: (1)law ought to be more explicitly theorized as a productive, anatomizingforce in the creation of sexual subjects and the constitution of (what isrecognizable as) sexual violence, rather than as a final, unfortunate epi-sode or effect of moral panic; 7 (2) critical scholarship must identify thekinds of sexual harm that do or should concern a democratic citizenry inorder to more effectively understand and deflate sexual hyperbole; and (3)both the agents provocateurs of “child sex panics” and their scholarly crit-ics neglect or misunderstand the ways concern over age and sex are at onceproxies for and displacements of more complicated problems of genderedpower and queer sexuality.

Even the perception of the eager suckling infant iseclipsed by the need to deny erotic import.

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informs your audience of your stance, and the partitio lays out your argument.

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his distortion also ignores the research in aggression that finds the relationship between sexually violent images in the media and changes in or toward callous attitudes toward women is stronger statistically than the relationship between smoking and cancer.

The messages people receive from pornography are that women are passive, even willing, partners in their own exploitation, and that men are entitled to unconditional use of women's bodies for their own pleasure. In pornography, women's sexuality and behavior is defined by men who feel a monetary or divine right to have access to female bodies. Sex is neither a female service nor a male right, but pornography states that it is.

Pornographers often portray women asking for their own violation, torture and even murder.

The falsehood that pornography is "harmless" and is to be protected as "free speech" ignores the fact that every act depicted in pornography is acted out on a real woman, a woman whose only purpose is about the same as that of a spittoon. The abuse pornographers inflict on women in the act of making pornography is not a thought, an idea, a fantasy or speech; it is corporeal.

women earn more money than men in the fields of modeling and pornography/prostitution. These areas, society tells us, are where a woman's value lies

Prostitution is illegal in every state except Nevada; why then is pornography legal? What is the difference if a woman gets paid to perform an act of sex, or if she gets paid to perform an act of sex in front of a camera? How does a camera "legitimatize" the act? Both women are engaging in sex for pay. Is one woman a prostitute and the other a porn "star" because society values the product rather than the act or the woman? These are the 10 billion dollar a year questions that no one seems to be able to answer.

Moreover, consider how contemptuously radical feminism is treating the "unacceptable" choices of these adult women. If a woman enjoys consuming pornography, it is not because she comes from another background, has a different psychological makeup, different goals in life or an unusual perspective. No: it is because she is mentally incompetent.

n the 19th century, women battled to become the legal equals of men, to have their consent taken seriously in the form of contracts and to have control of their own bodies legally recognized.

Crosson is correct that state censorship of pornography (as well as other hate speech) would backfire on the progressive movement and endanger positive sexual, artistic and political expression. (Of course, there are situations in which speech becomes something else—sexual harassment, threats to personal safety, etc.—and can, in my view, be legitimately suppressed. There may also be privacy rights of individuals whose bodies are displayed in pornography and who no longer want this public exposure.)

the production of pornography frequently involves the use of women and children in prostitution. Historically, neither socialists nor feminists have seen the selling of women's bodies as a free and liberating "choice" nor looked favorably upon pimps and capitalists that profit from this exploitation. The pornography industry offers women some of the worst working conditions available, where sexual harassment is literally "part of the job." As the economy worsens and the social safety net is eliminated, more women and girls may be forced to turn to such "sex work" for their survival and the survival of their families.

That pornography is a particularly insidious form of sexist hate speech is illustrated by the fact that men who wish to force women out of the workplace utilize pornography, rather than, let's say, sexist advertising for laundry detergent. In truth, there are few things as effective as pornography to remind women of their "place."

Speech (both the written and spoken word, pictures, etc.) does have the power to affect hearts and minds; otherwise, no one would ever bother writing anything. (If speech had no power, the putting out of the journal Against the Current would be a futile exercise.) A number of examples of the impact of hate speech come to mind: The fascistic book about race war and white supremacist "revolution," The Turner Diaries, probably helped inspire the Oklahoma City bombin

Rather, anti-pornography feminists believe that when violence and female subordination is presented as erotic, it encourages rape, wife abuse, incest, sexual harassment, femicide, and the view of women as non-persons.

Feminists must also address the relationship between images and those who make them. The women and men in the scarlet-collar industries are often exploited by their bosses, abused by patrons, disparaged by the public and harassed by the forces of law and order. Criminalizing porn will only make matters worse, as business will undoubtedly go underground and endure the hazards of the black market. Telling prostitutes and models to quit their jobs is ridiculous presumption. It would be more productive to insist that existing laws against coercion, battery, rape, kidnapping and child abuse be enforced in the sex industry. And it would be more productive to fund and support organizations like COYOTE, the U.S. Prostitutes' Collective and the International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights. My fantasy is that a national union will emerge and affiliate with the teamsters; the bumper stickers will read, Hookers and Truckers Unite. Talk about coalition building.

Porn is a product of our culture and bears all its ills, but it may not be their source.

Since battery, incest and inequality flourished for thousands of years before the mass-market porn industry, it's unlikely that they're directly linked to "dirty pictures."

And something is not quite right about the proposition that men rape because they think it's O.K. One thing feminism has accomplished is the redefinition of rape as a violent act rather than a sexual one. If we

Today, antiporn feminists believe that removing Playboy from newsstands will improve women's lot, and they cite research to show us why.

By the time feminist politics began to flag, cultural feminism had laid the ground for a new campaign: get at the source of men's mayhem, attack their sexuality and the culture that forms it. Yet it's hard to organize against something as amorphous as sexuality or culture. A focus was needed, a target, a Bastille. Pornography. The changing names of feminist organizations tell the story. Early on, there was Women Against Violence Against Women; then, later, Women Against Violence and Pornography in the Media; and then Women Against