The marketing of sexual products and services in cyberspace has propelled the pornography debate into new and unchartered territory. Congressmen and anti-porn activists are lobbying just as hard today against "cyberporn" as they were thirty years ago against dirty" magazines.
An all new section in this revised edition of Pornography examines this booming computer business. "Pornography and the Internet" opens with the Supreme Court decision in Peno vs. ACLU, commentary from Justices Stevens and O'Connor, and includes seven works on the Communications Decency Act.
Pornography explores the battlelines drawn between those who argue in favor of censorship and those who defend free speech, including essays on defining pornography, social and psychological effects, the differences between pornography, erotica and artistic expression; sexism violent pornography women's rights.
Contributors include Harry Brod, Barbara Dority, Andrea Dworkin, Theodore A. Gracyk, Judith Hill, Helen E. Longino, Thomas Parker, Alan Soble, Gloria Steinem, George F Will, and more.
Robert M. Baird (Waco, TX) is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Baylor University. Stuart B. Rosenbaum is an associate professor of philosophy at Baylor. Together they edit the Contemporary Issues Series.
Est. 250 pages ISBN 1-57392-207-2 Paper
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