ABSTRACT
To be radical about pornography used to mean that one favored less censorship; now it often means that one favors more. The new paradigm consorts easily with liberal values, and one should not be misled by the fact that its most articulate defenders are feminists who say they reject liberalism. Most feminist discussions proceed on the basis that pornography is heterosexual in its nature and audience. Occasionally, proponents of the new paradigm do discuss gay male pornography, in an attempt to assimilate it to their model. Mimicry might be said to affirm a standard by copying it when one might have changed it; but the failure of the Honorary Women Thesis shows that gay sex is not normally a mimicry of straight sex. Some common features of pornography may be expected to have significantly different consequences for gay men than they do for straight women.
