Abstract:In this essay some distinctions between eroticism and pornography are explored. After a reflection on the relations between pornography and the degradation of women, two major trends in feminist thought regarding pornography are explored. One of them seeks to eradicate pornography, while the other is critical of such attempts at censure, and considers pornography a liberating influence. Some aspects of the relation of these subjects to symbolic violence, and to female desire, femininity and masculinity, are analyzed.
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