ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors thank members of the Anti-Pornography and Prostitution Research Group (APP) and People Against Pornography and Sexual Violence (PAPS). Dignity thanks the following people for the time and expertise to review this article: Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at University of Michigan Law School; and Hiroshi Nakasatomi, Osaka Electro-Communications University.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
Seiya Morita https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8343-1265 lectures in Marxist political economy at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo and is a member of the Anti-Pornography and Prostitution Research Group. He is the translator of Catharine MacKinnon, David Harvey, and Sheila Jeffreys’s work into Japanese. His English-language academic work is published in Oriens Extremus, The Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus, and Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence. Morita reads in English, Russian, Japanese, and German, and is an internationally recognized Trotsky studies expert.
Caroline Norma https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6836-2054 lectures in translation and interpreting at RMIT University in Melbourne and is a member of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia. Her English-language academic work is published in Asian Studies Review, Women’s Studies International Forum, and Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence. Norma reads in Japanese and English and has expertise in the history of the comfort women, military prostitution, and the theorizing of Carole Pateman.
RECOMMENDED CITATION
Morita, Seiya & Norma, Caroline. (2021). Pornography, its harms, and a new legal strategy: Research and experience in Japan. Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence. Vol. 6, Issue 2, Article 3. https://doi.org/10.23860/dignity.2021.06.02.03 Available at http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/vol6/iss2/3
Table of Contents
- From an Obscenity to a Discrimination Approach
- MacKinnon and Dworkin’s Paradigm Shift
- From the MacKinnon-Dworkin Ordinance to “Anti-Pornography and Prostitution Research Group’s” Classification
- Harms in Production
- Harms of Spy-Cam Filming
- Harms Arising Through Pornography’s Circulation
- Harms Arising Through Pornography’s Consumption
- The Fourth Form of Pornography’s Harms - Social Harms
- Harms of the Existence of Pornography
- Prospects for a New Legal Strategy
- Our Strategic Alternative
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES