meta-analysis there was also a high degree of heterogeneity among studies, suggesting the existence of crucial moderating variables. This hypothesis was in keeping with the findings of a recent meta-analysis which indicated such a positive association between porn use and attitudes.
Today, who would argue that pornography is patriarchy’s central weapon? Indeed, who would argue that pornography is a political issue at all? Or that the relations between women and men are the central political issue?īased on the Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression, we hypothesized that individual differences in risk for sexual aggression moderate the association between pornography use and attitudes supporting violence against women.
By the early 1990s, it was generally seen, at best, as a diversion. After the initial furore, however, the skirmishes - even battles - the book initiated both within and about feminism soon died down. Feminists’ single most important task, therefore, is to deal with pornography. It is thus patriarchy’s most powerful weapon. In, literally, re-presenting violence as sex, pornography at once instantiates and encourages the misogynist violence on which patriarchy relies and which it expresses. Pornography, she argued, not only constitutes violence against women but it constitutes the main conduit for such violence, of which rape is at once the prime example and the central image. Published in 1981, Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women appeared to have changed the intellectual landscape - as well as changing many people’s lives.
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