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...Senate Commerce Committee, in a highly-publicized series of hearings on rock lyrics, last month heard rock musicians and anti-porn advocates debate the merits of warning labels for obscene rock records...
...pick up their moniker from a vegetarian dish at a SoHo restaurant--but they might as well have. Soft-pop is a term too readily used by critics: lately, it serves to describe everyone from Huey Lewis to X. Instead, let's call this musical melange soft-porn: it is that foul...
...would deny MacKinnon's diagnosis that pornography exploits, subordinates and abuses females as well as males. Nor would many disagree with the intent of anti-porn legislation aimed at halting pornographic coercion, force, assault, and trafficking...
...FACT THAT pornography is an $8 billion a year industry makes a compelling argument for those feminists who insist that legislating anti-porn censorship is a futile effort. Eradicating images of women's subjection to violence and degradation, they argue, overlooks the reality the images represent...
...SEXUAL REVOLUTION first formulated the equation between individual freedom and sexual selfexpression, thus raising the Freudian lid on both the porn industry and gay liberation. Millet, a self-proclaimed anarchist and lesbian in her fifities, places first priority on "freedom of expression," less out of respect for constitutional law than because she distrusts all legal institutions. She depicts anti-porn legislation as handing over "the power of judgment" to the "puritannical" realm of "patriarchal" authority--not necessarily male--whose legitimacy she mocks...