ABSTRACT
Pornography says that women are things; pornography says that being used as things fulfills the erotic nature of women; pornography says that women are the things men use. Pornography shows women as body parts, as genitals, as vaginal slits, as nipples, as buttocks, as lips, as open wounds, as pieces. Pornography turns women into objects and commodities; pornography perpetuates the object status of women; pornography perpetuates the self-defeating divisions among women by perpetuating the object status of women; pornography perpetuates the low self-esteem of women by perpetuating the object status of women. Pornography is violence against the women used in pornography and pornography encourages and promotes violence against women as a class. Pornography numbs the conscience, makes one increasingly callous to cruelty, to the infliction of pain, to violence against persons, to the humiliation or degradation of persons, to the abuse of women and children.
