Pornography and Women Theory

             Constitutionally protected speech that is Clearly sexual abuse is discriminating and
             unconstitutional, therefore, must be restricted speech. Catherine A. MacKinnon, in her book
             "Only Words" gives persuading evidence that pornography subordinates women as a group
             through sexual abuse. She says "Protecting pornography means protecting sexual abuse as
             speech, at the same time that both pornography and it's protection have deprived women of
             speech, especially speech against pornography (MacKinnon, 9). MacKinnon argues this bye
             explaining defamation and discrimination, racial and sexual harassment, and equality and
             Women are sexually abused for the making of pornography. Torture, rape, hot wax
             dripping over nipples, and murdering women are the tools to produce a product of evil.
             Literature is the description of these crimes against humanity (emphasized) and cameras are
             On the assumption that words have only a referential relation to reality, pornography
             is defended as only words-even when it is pictures women had to directly used to
             make, even when the means of writing are women's bodies, even when a women is
             destroyed in order to say it or show it or because it was said or shown.
             However, assuming words are only a partial relation to reality would mean we would have to
             reconsider what reality is. Our wedding vows such as "I do" would be meaningless and a jury
             could never return a verdict that is only partial to reality. These words are "treated as the
             institutions and practices they constitute, rather than as expressions of the idea they embody"
             (Mackinnon, 13) Therefore, if these words of pornography are only words, don't they
             institutionalize rape? Since pornography is rape on women.
             Pornography is protected by the First Amendment as free speech, but why? Becaus
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