J.M Coetzees The Harms Of Pornography

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Term Paper Title	J.M Coetzees The Harms Of Pornography
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J.M Coetzee's "The Harms of Pornography"

J.M Coetzee's "The Harms of Pornography"

        As the debate over pornography and its place in society grows hotter
every day, several authors in particular shed a new light on the subject. Both
their intuition and insight involving their beliefs can help the reader a great
deal in seeing aspects of this debate that might have otherwise gone without the
consideration that they so deserve. I believe that pornography is not only okay,
but is allowing our country to take a step back and ask ourselves how far we are
willing to go and what we are willing to sacrifice in order to preserve free
speech and our rights to personal choice.
     The argument over pornography is not merely the debate over right or
wrong, but also involves the theory that its existence requires, or possibly
even causes, an inequality between men and women. I ask you, how could
something like pornography cause an in-equality between men and women when women
are the major contributors to the industry? Who is going to watch a porn without
women in it? Therefore, at least at first glance, it would seem that since women
are actively contributing to the business of pornography maybe they should be
criticized at least equally if not more so than the men who watch it. According
to author J.M. Coetzee and his article "The Harms of Pornography", the real
questions here are, "what is the difference between obscenity and pornography",
and even more importantly, "where do we draw the line between the two"? Coetzee
brings up a good point here. A point on which the entire debate over pornography
hinges. What is the defenition of "obscenity"? An excerpt from a speech by Mike
Godwin, Online Counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, gives a good
definition of obscenity in his on-line article: "Fear of Freedom: The Backlash
Against Free Speech on the 'Net'".

Everybody more or less knows something about what qualifies as obscene.
You know it has something to do with "community standards," right? And
with appealing to the "prurient interest." A work has to be a patently
offensive depiction of materials banned by state statute and appeal to the
prurient interest to be obscene and it also has to meet one other
requirement. It also has to lack serious literary, artistic, social,
political or scientific value. That's how something is classified as
"obscene."

        Godwin states that one of the criteria for decency or absence of
obscenity is that someth...

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