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"...as that articulated in
Canada in February 1992 (in a Canadian Supreme Court ruling in the case
of Donald J. Butler). This decision states: 'Depictions of degrading and
dehumanizing sex and sex with violence harm society by poisoning attitudes
towards women.' To curtail this poisoning of attitudes towards women, the
Supreme Court ruled unanimously that 'the undue exploitation of sex or
depictions of sex involving violence, degradation, dehumanization [of women]
and [sex involving] children is illegal and a justifiable infringement
of freedom of expression guaranteed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.'
To whom do we speak? At the beginning, it is important to focus on the
sympathetic, those in our immediate circle of family, friends, colleagues,
and neighbors who do not necessarily need convincing but need a language
to name the problem and explore solutions."
-Campbell, in
Transforming a Rape Culture, 149. |
"...We've got to make some
serious changes, and we've got to get busy and act. If we sit around and
don't do anything, then we become the ones who are keeping things the way
they are...If we don't take seriously the fact that pornography is a radical
political issue and an issue about us, and if we don't make serious progress
in the direction of what we're going to do about it, then we've just gone
over to the wrong side of the fight-the morally wrong, historically wrong
side of a struggle that is a groundswell, a grass-roots people's movement
against sexual injustice." -
John Stoltenberg,
"Pornography and Freedom," in Making Violence Sexy, 75-76.
"It requires a critical mass
of support-not a majority, but a sizable, informed, and politicized minority.
Further research from more quarters on the effects of pornography in women's
lives, and the return of that information to women, will enable this critical
mass to form."
-Lederer, in
The Price We Pay, 88
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