Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: At Last: Sojourner on Dworkin-M Message-ID: <31600156@uiucdcs> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 15:35:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.31600156 Posted: Sat Nov 2 15:35:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 22:53:22 EST References: <3766@dartvax.UUCP> Lines: 31 Nf-ID: #R:dartvax.UUCP:3766:uiucdcs:31600156:000:1654 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan Nov 2 14:35:00 1985 > The anti-pornography ordinance on which Cambridge, Mas- > sachusetts, residents will vote in November (see News Briefs) > closely resembles the legislation proposed in Minneapolis, Indi- > anapolis, and Los Angeles. It defines "pornography" as follows: > > "Pornography is the graphic sexually explicit subordination > of women through pictures and/or words that also includes one or > more of the following: (i) women are presented dehumanized as > sexual objects, things, or commodities; or (ii) women are > presented as sexual objects who enjoy pain or humiliation; or > (iii) women are presented as sexual objects who experience sexual > pleasure in being raped; or (iv) women are presented as sexual > objects tied up or cut up or mutilated or bruised or physically > hurt; or (v) women are presented in postures of sexual submis- > sion, servility, or display; or (vi) women's body parts-- > including but not limited to vagina, breasts, or buttocks--are > exhibited such that women are reduced to those parts; or (vii) > women are presented as whores by nature; or (viii) women are > presented as being penetrated by objects or animals; or (ix) wom- > en are presented in scenarios of degradation, injury, torture, > shown as filthy or inferior, bleeding, bruised or hurt in a con- > text that makes these conditions sexual. Does anyone know of any book, movie or work of art containing at least one woman that could NOT be considered pornography under this definition? Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"