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RAPE is a feminist issue--and its occurrence and tacit social acceptance in our society are directly reflected in stereotypical images of women. But leaders of Women Against Pornography (WAP), such as Dines-Levi, do a disservice to the feminist movement's goals of severing the connections between male violence and female sexuality...
ELLEN Willis, in an article entitled "Feminism, Moralism and Pornography," offers an important discussion of the issues raised by Dines-Levi. Her refutation of WAP's platform is based on the recognition that these arguments set back the discussion about violence against women rather than further needed social change...
...What we are protesting," said WAP Coordinator Barbara Mehrhof, "is not just Lolita but the whole concept of the 'Lolita syndrome': the sexualizing of little girls. It's the whole Brooke Shields phenomenon...
Representatives of the organization state its purpose carefully and often. During a slide show about pornography, at the Harvard Science Center three weeks ago, Wendy Kaminer of WAP said, "We're not against erotica. We're against violence against women masquerading as entertainment...
...everyone who watched the procession pass by understood WAP's arguments or sympathized with them. A woman who claimed to oppose the death penalty on principle except for child pornographers said she decided not to join the march because, "This crowd is too colorful for me." She settled on a park bench nearby...