Mark Wicclair argues that we should be very wary about the censorship of pornography,
even if pornography, as Helen Longino defines it, exists. In order to fully understand
Wicclair's reason for being wary of the censorship of pornography it is important that we
use Helen Longino's definition of pornography. Helen Longino defines pornography as
"[the] verbal or pictoral explicit representations of sexual behavior that...have as a
distinguishing characteristic ‘the degrading and demeaning portrayal of the role
and status of the human female...as a mere sexual object to be exploited and
manipulated sexually (p.43)."
Helen Longino's definition can be used as the basis of numerous arguments dealing with
pornography. In this paper, I will deal with only one controversial aspect of
pornography. That aspect is the censorship of pornography. Although Wicclair raises
several reasons for being wary of the censorship of pornography, I will discuss only two
of those......

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Title: Argument Pornography
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Approximate Pages: 17 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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