Reply #89: No class of people can be fully equal

[Eloriel]

if they are routinely objectified by the dominant culture. Pornography is 100% objectification of women. Despite the oh-so-innocent pleadings to the contrary here, pornography DOES include and promote violence against women. Both these are two extrenmely powerful ways that pornography keeps the female half the entire population of the world oppressed.

There's no demonization of sex-workers implied in being anti-porn. Not at all. Dworkin and others see women (and men) sex workers are part of the group of people who are victimized by porn. The vast majority of sex workers were sexually harmed in some way as children -- working in the sex industry is NOT a healthy use of one's body or sexuality, no matter how much the comsumers of porn and other sex industry "products" and services want to fantasize to the contrary.