ABSTRACT
The harm of pornography begins with the women in it. Pornography sexualizes women's inequality. The pornography industry is largely an organized crime industry in which overt force is standard practice. Pornography is an icon of male supremacy the fusion of those twin icons, sex and speech. Pornography makes sex into a violation and makes rape and torture and intrusion into sex. The sex and the violence are interwoven on every other level of the pornography's social existence. Effects of exposure to pornography include the trivralization and objectincation of women, increased acceptance of rape myths, desensitization to sexual force, and spontaneous rape-fantasy generation. Pornography makes women what Andrea Dworkin has called "the sexual disappeared of this society". Because these injuries are disproportionally inflicted on women; because they are inflicted on everyone who is victimized by them on the basis of their sex.
