Jacoby's Arguments Against Pornography Feminist

Anti-pornography feminists will look at porn and see violence and humiliation to a woman and her reputation; but what they do not see is that they are causing negative effects for women by being an anti-pornography feminist. From Jacoby’s, “First Amendment Junkie”, Brownmiller’s ‘Let’s Put Pornography Back in the Closet”, Carolyn Bronstein’s book “Battling Pornography” and Lynn Walter’s “Women’s Right’s’, the arguments are clear. The evidence proves that Susan Jacoby has a more legitimate argument in saying that anti-porn feminists are looking to the government for a censorship on porn compared to Susan Brownmiller who says that porn is not a freedom of speech and is in fact harmful to women; which is incorrect. The fact is, pornography is
However, this is idealistic thinking that is unattainable. It is not the right of the government to ban pornography. It lays sole in one’s individual morality as the government is not there to block our viewing of porn, they are there to protect our right’s to do what we would like to do. Not all people see things the same way so what one may see as immoral is not for another. During Battling Pornography, Carolyn says, “In sum, feminist concern coalesceed around three major sets of issues: first, the potential threat to freedom of expression; second, the likelihood that anti-pornography activity would lead to alliances with religious conservatives who’s views on sexuality were decidedly anti feminist; and third, the failure to claim the positive aspects for women and to defend women’s rights to authentic sexual liberation” (Bronstein 280), and these point’s are the reason that enough to the war on porn was brought to a point of confusion. It was becoming impossible as the views were too narrow to please everyone involved. Carolyn says “The internal struggles over ideology, goals, and strategy, combined with the difficulty of maintaining sufficient resources took a heavy toll on the feminist anti-pornography movement in the early 1980’s” (Bronstein 318) which is a harsh defeat for the anti-porn feminists. The threat to freedom of expression is such a big issue that it is widely brought up in any discussion against anti-porn feminists and it is the main reason why elimination of porn will never be done in America. The third reason is a big one as well as women are made to feel that if they are to enjoy any of the erotic fantasies that anti-pornography feminists are against then they are considered “anti-feminist”. This is not fair though as not all women are being represented in the feminist protests against porn which is why many feminists stopped supporting the movement and why