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Feminism, Pornography, and a Culture of Hedonism - A short article for discussion

Feminism, Pornography, and a Culture of Hedonism - The Dartmouth Review

The Dartmouth Review is a bi-weekly conservative newspaper at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. It was founded in 1980, and remains independent.

I'm presenting this article for discussion, not because I agree with anything written in it. This is from an independent college newspaper and most likely written by a student.

Key points include:

...pornography does more than merely degrade women; it degrades sex and all human participants. The feminist perspective only seems to denounce degradation if it happens to show women as inferior within a hierarchy.

Determining when women are explicitly depicted as sex objects (in pornography) for the enjoyment of men would be impossible on a widespread scale.

It is impossible to depict women as anything more than sex objects in any form of pornography.

They (feminists) must admit that hedonistic depictions of human beings can have negative effects. The feminist who admits this puts himself/herself into a daunting political position that must simultaneously defend hedonism and seek to address its clear negative effects.

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