The proliferation of pornography and hate speech in contemporary democratic cultures threatens the liberal ideal of a marketplace of ideas, unhampered by state regulation of speech. Pornographic and hate speech, because it threatens to silence the competing speech of women and m…
Art and pornography: philosophical essays
Can a commitment to free speech be reconciled with the regulation of Pornography? In THE PROBLEM OF PORNOGRAPHY Susan M. Easton argues that it Can. Pornography poses a particularly difficult challenge to legal and Feminist theory: at what exact point does the freedom of the i…
Debates over pornography tend to be heated and deeply polarized-as with other topics that have to do with sex, pornography cuts to the core of our values and convictions. Philosophical debates concerning pornography are fraught with difficult questions: What is pornography? What…
