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Throughout the chapter Mackinnon attempts to drive home the
Just how dangerous pornography is to women. She states that
Pornogophy "turns a woman into a thing to be acquired and used." And that it is primarily concerned "with whether women bleed"(199) She Martian that there is no legitimate distinction between rape and pornography, describing pornography as "sexual terrorism" () Implicit to virtually every aspect of Mackinnon's arguments is the assumption that women are unmitigated, unequal perpetual victims of human sexuality. This argument is harmful to the feminist cause because it divorces women from their sexuality. It creates a double standard in which women are inherently degraded by sex, but men are not. It perpetuates the notion

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