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Peer reviewedBaron, Larry – Society, 1987
To right-wing groups and some feminists pornography symbolizes immorality. The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography supported this thinking. It concluded that pornography increases aggression and it instituted a crackdown on pornography. Since no empirical evidence supports its conclusions, the commission was more concerned with censorship…
Descriptors: Censorship, Federal Regulation, Feminism, Mass Media Effects
