@article{ref1,
title="Exposing the fallacies of anti-porn feminism",
journal="Feminist theory",
year="2005",
author="Shrage, Laurie",
volume="6",
number="1",
pages="45-65",
abstract="This paper examines an issue at the centre of feminist debates about pornography and sex work, and that is whether these practices reduce women to sex objects. I question the assumption that the expression of sexual desire is unique in its power to degrade and dehumanize persons. I show that this assumption underlies Catharine MacKinnon's attack on pornography by considering MacKinnon's intellectual debt to the philosopher Immanuel Kant. I then examine recent discussions of sexual objectification in the philosophical literature and argue that MacKinnon's adaptation of Kant has flaws comparable to Kant's original account of sexual desire.<p />",
language="",
issn="1464-7001",
doi="10.1177/1464700105050226",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700105050226"
}