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78. See Carole Pateman, "Defending Prostitution: Charges against Ericsson,"
Ethics
93, no. 3 (April 1983): 56165; also see Pateman's "Women and Consent,"
Political Theory
8, no. 2 (1980): 14968.
79. See Naomi Wolf,
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women
(New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1991), 13242; Laura Lederer, "'Playboy Isn't Playing': An Interview with Judith Bat-Ada," in Lederer,
Take Back the Night
, 12223, 12829; MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
, 260, n. 10; also see
Feminism Unmodified
, 8592, and Russell, "Pornography and Rape."
80. Soble,
Pornography, Marxism, Feminism
, 15657.
81. Dworkin,
Pornography
, 123; also see J, in Millett, "Prostitution," 9496; C, in "We Take It for All Women," 103.
82. Dworkin,
Pornography
, xviiixix, 109.
83. Christine Swanton, Viviane Robinson, and Jan Crosthwaite, "Treating Women as Sex-Objects,"
Journal of Social Philosophy
20, no. 3 (1989): 12.
84. Nancy Hartsock,
Money, Sex and Power
(New York: Longman, 1983), 172, 17678; Robert J. Stoller,
Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980), 68; Stoller,
Porn
, 219; Lynne Segal, "Sweet Sorrows, Painful Pleasures: Pornography and the Perils of Heterosexual Desire," in Segal and McIntosh,
Sex Exposed
, 6970; Kittay, "Pornography and the Erotics of Domination," 157; also see Sheila Ruth, "Bodies and
 
Page 248
Souls/Sex, Sin and the Senses in Patriarchy: A Study in Applied Dualism,"
Hypatia
2, no. 1 (winter 1987): 14963.
85. McClintock, "Maid to Order," 21115, 21719, 22728.
86. Brod, "Pornography and the Alienation of Male Sexuality," 285. For a discussion of men who "dismember" themselves under capitalism through a preoccupation with sexual performance, see Soble,
Pornography, Marxism, Feminism
, 61.
87. Jessica Beniamin, "Master and Slave: The Fantasy of Erotic Domination," in Snitow et al.,
Powers of Desire
, 288. Avedon Carol argues that there is no evidence for the existence of snuff films. For Carol, their hyperbole and condemnation are merely tools by the moral right and antipornography feminists to associate porn with violence against women. See Avedon Carol, "Snuff: Believing the Worst," in Assiter and Carol,
Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures
, 12630. For a contrasting view, see Beverly LaBelle, "
Snuff
The Ultimate in Woman-Hating," in Lederer,
Take Back the Night
, 27278.
88. MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
, 157; also see Catharine A. MacKinnon,
Only Words
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993). For the conceptual distinction between "depiction" and "enactments" of activity, see Soble,
Pornography, Marxism, Feminism
, 12830.
89. See Berger, "Pornography, Feminism, and Censorship," 335. Echoing my discussion of the complex dialectic between fantasy and reality in pornography, Judith Hill points out that the fiction in porn would not be successful if its subjects were not real people. See Hill, "Pornography and Degradation," 69.
90. Diana Russell, "On Pornography,"
Chrysalis
4 (1977): 12; MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
, 150; also see Russell with Lederer, "Questions We Get Asked Most Often," 28; MacKinnon,
Only Words
.
91. Rubin, in English et al., "Talking Sex," 57.
92. See Kittay's discussion of men's "delicately balanced interactions with women," "Pornography and the Erotics of Domination," 169, and Segal, "Sweet Sorrows," 6667; Vance, ''Negotiating Sex and Gender," 44, and Elizabeth Cowrie, "Pornography and Fantasy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives," in Segal and McIntosh,
Sex Exposed
, 13252; Soble,
Pornography, Marxism, Feminism
, 8687; Stoller,
Porn
, 225. For criticism of pornography as catharsis, see Kittay, "Pornography and the Erotics of Domination," 17172.
93. See Stoltenberg, "Pornography and Freedom," 71; Williams, "Pornographies On/scene," 24445; also see Williams's discussion of gays and lesbians in heterosexual porn, as opposed to gay and lesbian porn, 24462.
94. See Pateman, "Defending Prostitution," 365; Tong,
Women, Sex, and the Law
, 31, 5859; LeMoncheck,
Dehumanizing Women
, 9294; MacKinnon,
Feminism Unmodified
, 14.

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