Avedon Carol

Avedon Carol argues in the following viewpoint that opponents of pornography incorrectly claim that pornography causes harm. Censoring pornography, Carol claims, simply prohibits people from judging for themselves pornography’s effects. Carol maintains that censorship has always been used to silence opposition. When public debate is shut down by censorship, Carol asserts, people cannot find solutions to real social problems. Avedon Carol is a founding member of Feminists Against Censorship, an organization whose goal is to fight censorship, including the censorship of pornography.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. How did politicians suppress the women’s liberation movement, according to Carol?
2. In the author’s opinion, how did moral rightists smear sexual media?
3. How does Carol characterize the backgrounds of serial killers and child molesters"

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