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Women Against Pornography

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Women Against Pornography (WAP) was a radical feminist activist group based out of New York City that had an influential force in the anti-pornography movement of the late 1970s and the 1980s. [1]

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American Booksellers Ass'n, Inc. v. Hudnut

American Booksellers Ass'n, Inc.

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Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women.

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Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance

The Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance (also known as the Dworkin-MacKinnon Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance or Dworkin-MacKinnon Ordinance) is a name for several proposed local ordinances in the United States and that was closely associated with the anti-pornography radical feminists Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon.

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Arthur Everard

Arthur Everard (born 1935) is a filmmaker, journalist, and former Chief Censor of New Zealand.

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Blanche Baker

Blanche Baker (born December 20, 1956) is an American actress and filmmaker.

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Blood Sucking Freaks

Blood Sucking Freaks is a 1976 exploitation-splatter film.

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Catharine MacKinnon

Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American scholar, lawyer, teacher, writer, and activist.

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Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) is an international non-governmental organization opposing human trafficking, prostitution, and other forms of commercial sex.

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Custer's Revenge

Custer's Revenge (also known as Westward Ho) is an adult video game produced by Mystique for the Atari 2600, first released on September 23, 1982.

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Dolores Alexander

Dolores Alexander (August 10, 1931 – May 13, 2008) was a lesbian feminist, writer, and reporter.

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Dorchen Leidholdt

Dorchen A. Leidholdt is an activist and leader in the feminist movement against violence against women.

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Dorothy Allison

Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949) is an American writer from South Carolina whose writing expresses themes of class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism.

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Feminism in culture

Feminism has affected culture in many ways, and has famously been theorised in relation to culture by Angela McRobbie, Laura Mulvey and others.

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Feminist sex wars

The feminist sex wars, also known as the lesbian sex wars, or simply the sex wars or porn wars, are terms used to refer to collective debates amongst feminists regarding a number of issues broadly relating to sexuality and sexual activity.

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Feminist views on pornography

Feminist views on pornography range from condemnation of all of it as a form of violence against women, to an embracing of some forms as a medium of feminist expression.

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Feminist views on sexuality

Feminist views on sexuality widely vary.

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Feminists Fighting Pornography

Feminists Fighting Pornography (FFP,Searles, Janis, Sexually Explicit Speech and Feminism, Revista Juridica Universidad de Puerto Rico, vol. 63, p. 471, at p. 488 n. 92 (1994). pronounced /fip/) was a political activist organization against pornography.

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Florence Rush

Florence Rush (January 23, 1918 – December 9, 2008) was an American certified social worker (M.S.W. from the University of PennsylvaniaLove, Barbara J. and Nancy F. Cott. Feminists Who Changed America, 1963—1975. University of Illinois Press, 2008 p. 399), feminist theorist and organizer best known for introducing The Freudian Coverup in her presentation "The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View" about childhood sexual abuse and incest at the April 1971 New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) Rape Conference.

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Gloria Leonard

Gloria Leonard (born Gale Sandra Klinetsky; August 28, 1940 – February 3, 2014) was an American pornographic actress who became the publisher of High Society magazine.

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Joan Nestle

Joan Nestle (born May 12, 1940) is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and a founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which holds, among other things, everything she has ever written.

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Laura Lederer

Laura J. Lederer (born 1951) is a pioneer in the work to stop human trafficking.

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Linda Lovelace

Linda Susan Boreman (January 10, 1949 – April 22, 2002), more commonly referred to by her onetime stage name Linda Lovelace, was an American pornographic actress famous for her performance in the 1972 hardcore porn film Deep Throat.

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Max TV (New Zealand)

Max TV was a New Zealand music channel available over the air in Auckland from October 1993 to December 1997.

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Michael Findlay

Michael Findlay (1938–1977), along with his wife Roberta Findlay, directed and produced numerous sexploitation movies.

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New York Radical Feminists

New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) was a radical feminist group founded by Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt in 1969, after they had left Redstockings and The Feminists, respectively.

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Opposition to pornography

Reasons for opposition to pornography include religious objections, feminist concerns, and claims of harmful effects, such as pornography addiction.

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Sex-positive feminism

Sex-positive feminism, also known as pro-sex feminism, sex-radical feminism, or sexually liberal feminism, is a movement that began in the early 1980s centering on the idea that sexual freedom is an essential component of women's freedom.

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Snuff (film)

Snuff is a 1976 splatter horror film, and is most notorious for being marketed as if it were an actual snuff film.

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Susan Brownmiller

Susan Brownmiller (born February 15, 1935) is an American feminist journalist, author, and activist best known for her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape.

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The Feminists

The Feminists, also known as Feminists—A Political Organization to Annihilate Sex Roles,Greer, Germaine (1970).

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WAP

WAP may refer to.

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Wendy Kaminer

Wendy Kaminer (born 1949) is an American lawyer and writer.

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Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media

Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (WAVPM) was a feminist anti-pornography activist group based in San Francisco and an influential force in the larger feminist anti-pornography movement of the late 1970s and 1980s.

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1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality

The Barnard Conference on Sexuality is often credited as the moment that signaled the beginning of the Feminist Sex Wars.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Against_Pornography

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