November 20, 1985 Portland Observer, Paye 7
Feminist Andrea Dworkin says pornography should be outlawed
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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.
D w orkin and law professor
t alhenne MacKinnon wrote and in
troduced the anti porn law to the
Minneapolis i 11s l ouncil in lu s t,
follow ed bs a similar e tlo rt in In
diatiapolis Although the laws passed
m both cities, ihes base set to be ap
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