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November 20, 1985 Portland Observer, Paye 7 Feminist Andrea Dworkin says pornography should be outlawed bv Hoben I olhian •\nii pornography agtivivt .mJ feminist author Andrea Dworkin said in Portland last week that por nographs “ iv a systematic ex plottation ol a group o f people because of a condition ol their birth.” D w orkin said forms ol por nographs that demean women bs portraying them as sexual objects, that show them in insulting positions, and which depict violence against women, are siolating women's civil rights and should be outlawed Dworkin spoke in Portland al Reed College She is the co author ol con trosersial anti porn laws in Min neapolis and Indianapolis, and the author ol H omen Hating and Por nographv \1en Powewmg B omen She d id n 't balk at taking on the First Amendment, which mans judges base interpreted to allow jsor nographs as an expression ol freedom ol speech she said the amendment was w ritten bs “ a bunch ot white men'' who owned Black slases and women as chattel “ It was their freedom ol speech thes meant fhev didn't mean us,” she said “ AAe d on 't believe that freedom is defined bs how badls we hurt other people.” Dworkin said her observations in porn shops resealed such “ entertain m en t" lo t men as tape, torture, siolence. sex with animals, “ S n u tl" porn where women are actually killed, pregnanes porn, amputee porn, and women shown in esets demeaning position imaginable, including hanging from chandeliers Porn for Nazis and neo Nazis depicts Jewish women tortured by men in Nazi uniforms in surroundings that appear to be death camps Bsxiks base titles like / M uv a Gevtapo Se\ Slave. she said According to Dworkin, "D ie por nographs that is bought and sold in this country is one ol the most in stitutionalized forms o f racial haired." Race porn “ sexualizes the pleasure ot hating the person who is suppsised Io be racialls ulterior < ontenipt lor women in general is directed against the skin ol the Black women, she said le e rs racial stereotspe is uses Chicana women are portrased as " h o t," for example, but the cruelest race porn currently involves Asian women, Dworkin said She described books with titles like Plantation o f Pain “ When somebody savs to you that por nographv is a freedom, that's what thes 'ie talking about " Dworkin also spoke ol the "street in tim id a tio n " ot women bs male porn customers in neighborhoods near porn shops. " I he parts ot the cits thes gise them ate where poor people live, where people ot color pliesl because judges base interpreted them to violate Ireedom ol speech She emphasized, on the other hand, that the laws were meant as civil lights laws, to protect womens' rights, and not to take ass as lights I he laws also protest children and gavs, she said Pornography is a lo im ot sexual disci im iu atio n and theietoie a viola tion ol womens' civil rights, D w orkin said “ It is power we an talking about, not Ire e d o m ,'' she said “ It is a movement against pimps, rapists and organized crime It is a movement ol poor women." live, all across the country W omen in these neighborhoods live lives ol tin mitigated hell." According to Dworkin, peicent ol women depicted in por nographv suffered sexual abuse as children., and “ thes're poor, not itc h ," she said. 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