The liberal position is one view that women can take towards pornography. This group feels that pornography does not have anything to do with violent acts against women. They believe pornography is " . . . sexually explicit material designed for sexual arousal"(6). The liberals also feel that since there is not hard evidence that pornography leads to violence towards women, they see no reason in banning it: "While pornography may offend many women and men, it brings harmless pleasure to others"(6). Since there are countless people out there that are offended by sexually explicit material the British Williams Report wanted to "limit the public display of pornography in the interests of those who might find it offensive"(6).

The feminist point of view does not worry about the decay of family values. Instead, it focuses on how women are represented in sexually explicit material. Feminists hate the way women are portrayed in mainstream heterosexual pornography. Women are portrayed as "passive, perpetually desiring bodies - or bits of bodies - ubiquitously available for men's insatiable sexual appetites"(7). During the 1970's a women by the name of Ruth Wallsgrove stated: "I believe we should not agitate for more laws against pornography, but should rather stand up together and say what we feel about it, and what we feel about our own sexuality"(7). This belief did not last very long. It was soon overshadowed by the belief that something must be done about male violence. A very popular saying came out in the mid-1970's: "Pornography is the Theory, Rape is the Practice"(7). This one phrase subjected men to the same thing that women have been subjected to for years, which is not giving them a separate identity. Male sexuality is male violence and the key to their being dominant is also their violence was the image that these women were portraying with this quote. The feminist helped to redefine pornography as "material which depicts violence against women, and is in itself violence against women"(8). Andrea Dworkin's book, Pornography: Men Possessing Women is an extremely influential book for feminists view of pornography. Dworkin feels that " 'pornography' lies not only behind all forms of female oppression, but behind exploitation, murder and brutality th

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