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    Prohibiting the voluntary private consumption of pornogra... — Carmelics
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    Prohibiting the voluntary private consumption of pornography is not legitimately justified.

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    • 1.A legitimate case for prohibition requires reliable evidence that pornography causes significant harm to people other than consenting adults involved in its production and consumption.
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    • 2.There is as yet no reliable evidence that the voluntary private production or consumption of pornography by consenting adults causes sufficiently significant harm to others.
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    • 3.Pornography therefore satisfies only harmless personal preferences for sexual gratification.
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    • 1.Pornography constitutes a form of hate speech that subordinates women as a class, regardless of individual consent to its production.
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    • 2.Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin argue that speech acts can themselves be mechanisms of oppression, not merely descriptions of it.
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    • 3.Harm to third parties occurs through the silencing and inequality that pornography institutionalizes, satisfying Mill's harm principle for prohibition.
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    • 1.The liberal framework presupposed by P1 treats preferences as exogenous, ignoring that pornography actively shapes and distorts sexual preferences toward domination.
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    • 2.Autonomy-based rights cannot coherently protect the consumption of material that systematically undermines the conditions for genuine autonomous choice in others.
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    Liberal defenders of the right to pornography may thus allow that restrictions on its public display may be justified. But only if pornography can reliably be shown to cause significant harm to people other than those consenting adults involved in its production and consumption will there be a legitimate case for prohibiting its voluntary private consumption. When an individual’s private activities cause harm to others, they become no longer merely a private matter but of legitimate public inter
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