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    It is not the case that Prohibiting the voluntary private consumption of pornography is not legitimately justified.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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