As she foretold, pornography did breach the dike that separated a marginal, adult, private pursuit from the mainstream public arena. She was right about the warning, wrong about the outcome. The world she had, Cassandra-like, warned us about so passionately was truly here: Porn is, as David Amsden says, the “wallpaper” of our lives now. The feminist warrior looked gentle and almost frail. In a kind of domino theory, she predicted, rape and other kinds of sexual mayhem would surely follow. If we did not limit pornography, she argued-before Internet technology made that prospect a technical impossibility-most men would come to objectify women as they objectified porn stars, and treat them accordingly. At a benefit the other night, I saw Andrea Dworkin, the anti-porn activist most famous in the eighties for her conviction that opening the floodgates of pornography would lead men to see real women in sexually debased ways.
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