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Pornography and Degradation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Judith M. Hill
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Abstract

I have taken a Kantian approach to the issue of pornography and degradation. My thesis is that by perpetuating derogatory myths about womankind, for the sake of financial gain, the pornography industry treats the class of women as a means only, and not as composed of individuals who are ends in themselves. It thus de-grades all women, as members of this class, imputing to them less than full human status.

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Hypatia , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , Summer 1987, pp. 39 - 54
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Copyright © 1987 by Hypatia, Inc.

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