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03941aam a2200457 i 4500 001 F4708F8E477411EC81CA9FE82DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211117010121 008 210222s2021 nyu 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021008070 020 $a 0197598536 020 $a 9780197598535 035 $a (OCoLC)1240264890 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d KMM $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-sw--- $a n-cn--- $a e-sw--- 050 00 $a K5293 $b .W355 2021 100 1 $a Waltman, Max, $d 1974- $e author. 245 10 $a Pornography : $b the politics of legal challenges / $c Max Waltman. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xiv, 544 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Supply, demand, and production harms -- Harm caused by consumers -- Democracy and hierarchy -- The antipornography civil rights ordinances, 1983-1991 -- Federal responses, 1984-2014 -- Legislative attempts,1983-1988 -- Judicial challenges, 1982-2019 -- Challenging production, 1993-2005 -- Substantive equality prostitution law, 1999-2019. 520 $a "This book assesses American, Canadian, and Swedish legal challenges to the explosive spread of pornography within their significantly different democratic systems and constructs a political and legal theory for effectively challenging the sex industry under law. The obstacles to this challenge are exposed as more ideological and political than strictly legal, although they often play out in the legal arena. The pornography industry is documented to exploit vulnerable populations in making its materials. A thorough analytical review of empirical studies using complementing methods demonstrates that using pornography substantially contributes to consumers becoming more sexually aggressive, on average desensitizing them and contributing to a demand for more subordinating, aggressive, and degrading materials. Consumers are also often found wishing to imitate pornography with unwilling partners; many demand sex from prostituted people, who have few or no alternatives. Most young men regularly consume pornography. Legal challenges to the harms are shown to be more effective under legal systems that promote equality and when the laws empower those most harmed, in contrast to state-enforced regulations (e.g., criminal obscenity laws). Drawing on feminist theory, among others, this book argues that pornography is among the linchpins of sex inequality, contending that a civil society forum can empower those harmed, with representatives who have more substantial incentives to address them. This book explains why democracies fail to address the harms of pornography and offers a political and legal theory for making the necessary changes. The insights can be applied to other intractable problems of hierarchy"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Pornography $x Law and legislation $z United States. 650 0 $a Pornography $x Law and legislation $z Canada. 650 0 $a Pornography $x Law and legislation $z Sweden. 650 0 $a Pornography $x Political aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Pornography $x Political aspects $z Canada. 650 0 $a Pornography $x Political aspects $z Sweden. 650 0 $a Obscenity (Law) 650 7 $a Obscenity (Law) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01042937 650 7 $a Pornography $x Law and legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071883 650 7 $a Pornography $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071889 651 7 $a Canada. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204310 651 7 $a Sweden. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204537 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 776 08 $i Online version: $a Waltman, Max, $t Pornography $d New York : Oxford University Press, 2021. $z 9780197598559 $w (DLC) 2021008071 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014113.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F4708F8E477411EC81CA9FE82DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search