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Heartney's Argument Against Pornography
In this article, Heartney discusses pornography and it’s place in the politics of 1991 where femminist had been protesting the use of it. Andrea Dworkin claimed that “Terror issues forth from the male, [illuminating] his essential nature and his basic purpose.” Along with this the right wing taking was a stand against it as well for its “immorality.” While the left defends pornography, as it claiming such things polerizes gender, ethic and sexual lines.
Heartney acknowledges many feminist attempts in their justification of their views, quoting Alice Echols stating that the “anti-pornography crusade” “[reinforces] and [validates] womens sense of themselves” and, in what Heartney claims as Dworkin’s “black-and-white universe,” writes that from

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