Debating Pornography

Andrew Altman is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University. He specializes in contemporary legal and political philosophy and has published three books, as well as dozens of articles in such journals as Philosophy and Public Affairs, Ethics, and Legal Theory. He is the author of the entries "Civil Rights" and "Discrimination" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Lori Watson is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at University of San Diego and affiliate faculty in the School of Law. She specializes in political philosophy, feminism, and legal philosophy. Her book, Equal Citizenship and Public Reason: A Feminist Political Liberalism (co-authored with Christie Hartley), was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. She is currently working on Debating Sex Work (with Jessica Flannigan), forthcoming from OUP.

Introduction by Andrew Altman and Lori Watson

Part One: Pornography and Sexual Autonomy
by Andrew Altman
1. Sex, Speech, and the Right to Autonomy
2. Obscenity and Pornography
3. Evidence and Harm
4. The MacKinnon-Dworkin Ordinance
5. Pornography as Subordinating Speech
6. Conclusion: The Big Historical Picture
References

Part Two: A Defense of Sex Equality Approach to Pornography
by Lori Watson
7. Sex, Equality, and Pornography
8. Pornography
9. Defenses of Pornography
10. Conclusion
References