ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the state of scholarship on pornography, which has been framed around two polarized perspectives: that of anti-pornography feminists and moral conservatives, and that of anti-censorship activists. The chapter then suggests these competing—and rigid—views must be critiqued ethically, considering both the social scientific research about the harms of pornography, especially as they involve abuses of power inflected on vulnerable women, and the technological and commercial implications affecting the pornography industry today.
