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Pornography

by Baird, Robert M., Rosenbaum, Stuart E.
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Overview

The marketing of sexual products and services in cyberspace has propelled the pornography debate into new and unchartered territory. Congressmen and anti-porn activists are lobbying just as hard today against "cyberporn" as they were thirty years ago against "dirty" magazines.

An all new section in this revised edition of Pornography examines the booming computer sex business. "Pornography and the Internet" opens with the Supreme Court decision in Reno vs. ACLU, commentary from Justices Stevens and O'Connor, and includes seven works on the Communications Decency Act.

Pornography explores the battlelines drawn between those who argue in favor of censorship and those who defend free speech, including essays on defining pornography; social and psychological effects; the differences between pornography, erotica, and artistic expression; sexism, violent pornography, and women's rights.

Contributors include Harry Brod, Barbara Dority, Andrea Dworkin, Theodore A. Gracyk, Judith Hill, Helen E. Longino, Thomas Parker, Alan Soble, Gloria Steinem, George F. Will, and more.

About the Author, Robert M. Baird

Robert M. Baird (Waco, TX) is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Baylor University. Stuart E. Rosenbaum is an associate professor of philosophy at Baylor. Together they edit the Contemporary Issues Series.

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Offers a spectrum of opinions and arguments for and against the suppression of sexual explicit material, updated from the 1991 edition to reflect the shift of concern from print, telephones, and television to the Internet. The first section focuses on the legislative history of the 1995 Communications Decency Act and its 1997 death in the US Supreme Court. Others present feminist, libertarian, and religious perspectives and views on whether pornography does or does not cause violence. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Book Details

Published
April 19, 1998
Publisher
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1998.
Pages
250
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781573922074

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