Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

women, to traffic in material that provably causes aggressionagainst and lower civil status for women in society.The law’s definition o f pornography is concrete, not abstract.Pornography is defined as the graphic, sexually explicitsubordination of women in pictures and/or wordsthat also includes women presented dehum anized as sexualobjects, things, or commodities; or women presentedas sexual objects who enjoy pain or humiliation; or womenpresented as sexual objects who experience sexual pleasurein being raped; or women presented as sexual objects tiedup or cut up or mutilated or bruised or physically hurt;or women presented in postures or positions of sexualsubmission, servility, or display; or wom en’s body parts—including but not limited to vaginas, breasts, buttocks—exhibited such that women are reduced to those parts; orwomen presented as whores by nature; or women presentedbeing penetrated by objects or animals; or womenpresented in scenarios o f degradation, injury, torture,shown as filthy or inferior, bleeding, bruised, or hurt in acontext that makes these conditions sexual. If men, children,or transsexuals are used in any of the same ways,the material also meets the definition of pornography.For women hurt by pornography, this law simply describesreality; it is a m ap of a real world. Because the lawallows them to sue those who have imposed this reality onthem — especially the makers, sellers, exhibitors, and distributorsof pornography— they have a way of redraw ingthe map. T he courts now protect the pornography; theyrecognize the harm to women injudicial decisions— or theyuse words that say they recognize the harm — and then tellwomen that the Constitution protects the harm ; profit isreal to them and they make sure the pimps stay rich, evenas women and their children are this country’s poor. T hecivil rights law is designed to confront both the courts andthe pornographers with a dem and for substantive, not theoretical,equality. This law says: we have the right to stopthem from doing this to us because we are hum an beings.“If my existence is proved real, I am coming to take what