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  • The California-based nonprofit agency, ICANN, effectively paved the way for a digital red light district to take its place alongside suffixes such as. com and. org, finally ending a decade-long battle over what some consider formal acknowledgment of pornography's prominent place on the Internet.

    Domain For Porn Sites Gains Approval 2010

  • Locked into the very categories he inherits from the Victorians, Marcus insists that pornography's

    Notes on 'How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision' 2006

  • Marcus, and the one that I challenge, is pornography's fundamental difference from literature.

    Notes on 'How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision' 2006

  • You write that pornography's greatest beneficiaries include Fortune 100 companies.

    The Last Word: Eric Schlosser 2007

  • Martha Nussbaum, who is sympathetic to MacKinnon and Dworkin's analysis of pornography's contribution to the subordination of women, offers four reservations in regard to their ordinance: (1) the justification for the ordinance fails to distinguish between moral wrongs that are legally actionable and those that are not; (2) violence against women has a variety of causes and it is difficult to isolate the distinct contribution of pornography;

    Feminist Perspectives on Sex Markets Shrage, Laurie 2007

  • But the paradox remains: At the same time that it is more accepted, pornography's content is becoming steadily more extreme.

    The paradox of pornography 2006

  • This definition reflects the fact that conservatives object to pornography's sexual explicitness, which is obscene or appeals to

    Pornography and Censorship West, Caroline 2004

  • Anti-pornography feminists, however, do not object to pornography's sexually explicit content per se.

    Pornography and Censorship West, Caroline 2004

  • The ordinance has been the subject of a heated debate among feminists, many of whom are dubious both about the centrality of pornography's role in the subordination of women and about the desirability of employing strategies of legal regulation in the pursuit of feminist goals.

    Pornography and Censorship West, Caroline 2004

  • No matter the overwhelming statistical evidence of pornography's negative impact on society, not only is its existence protected in forms and places only accessible by adults, but its existence is GUARANTEED to be available to our children at the touch of a computer keyboard or the pressing of a TV remote control's buttons.

    Philocrites: Christians for Kerry. 2004

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