- American Booksellers v. Hudnut (7th Cir.) (1986): This case
deals with anti-pornography ordinance in Indianapolis that a couple
of extremist feminist legal scholars (Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea
Dworkin) drafted. These extremists felt that “pornography
institutionalized the sexuality of male supremacy,” and that studies
showed pornography led to sexual abuse. Under the Indianapolis
statute, “pornography” was defined as “the graphic sexually explicit
subordination of women, whether in pictures or in words, that also
includes on or more of the following: (1) Women are presented as
sexual objects who enjoy pain or humiliation; or (2) Women are
presented as sexual objects who experience sexual pleasure in being
raped; or (6) Women are presented as sexual objects for domination,
conquest, violation, exploitation, possession, or use, or through
postures or positions of servility or submission or display.” P
(American Booksellers) challenged the statute. Did the Indianapolis
statute violate the First Am.?
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