Comparing Catherine MacKinnons Not A Moral Issue and Sallie Tisdale’s

Comparing Catherine MacKinnons Not A Moral Issue and Sallie Tisdales Talk Dirty to MeProfessors scuttlebutt This powerful essay contrasts the views of two feminist, Catherine MacKinnon and Sallie Tisdale, each of which perceives pornography in widely divergent ways. While MacKinnons Not A Moral Issue explains the adverse impacts of pornography to wo custody and society as a whole, Tisdales Talk Dirty to Me An Intimate Philosophy of Sex is receptive to pornography despite these adverse impacts, suggesting in fact that the solution to the problems associated with pornography is a greater spot of women in production of that pornography.Breasts and booties, buns and knockers. Type these words into a search field and be prepared. The presence of pornographic and obscene natural is rampant in commercial advertising, on primetime television, and in every Danielle Steel novel. Such an over-abundance of disputed material introduces many questions for discussion. One must ask, why there is such a demand for these products and why have they created a forum of controversy from left- and right-wingers, as well as feminists and chauvinists?What, then, is pornography? Is it the art of sex, a struggle against morality, the worlds leading pandemic of sexual violence, or the ongoing struggle for First Amendment rights? Pornography, as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary, is sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. This definition, however, lacks the clarity of realistically differentiating between pornography and erotica, and leaves room for interpreting the true meaning of explicit. The issue at debate, however, is neither the naming nor identifying po... ... modern sexual revolution, but also to a third wave of feminism, is understandably disgruntling for right-wing conservatives. The questions about the unknown effects of this debatable media are endless. What if pornography poses such a great threa t not for its graphic sexual depictions or immorality, but for its potential to encourage both men and women to lead lives of sexual freedom, without the antiquated ideals of nuclear families and desk jobs? Perhaps it is pornographic and sex-trade industries, which are blamed for the loss of contemporary social morality and ethics, that will prescribe smart ideals of life in the future.Works CitedCatherine MacKinnon Not A Moral Issue 1993Martha Nussbaum Sex and Social Justice Oxford University Press, 2000Tisdale, Sallie. Talk Dirty to Me An Intimate Philosophy of Sex. New York Doubleday, 1994.