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Is it really 'the feminist point'?

"Courts difficulties in framing workable standards to separate 'prurient' from other sexual interest, commercial exploitation from art or advertising, sexual speech from sexual conduct, and obscenity from great literature make the feminist point. [...] Commercial sex [pornography] resembles art because both exploit women's sexuality [...], pornography converges with more conventionally acceptable depictions and descriptions just as rape does with intercourse, because both are acts within the same power relation [male domination]" Catharine MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State , Cambridge (Massachusetts), Harvard University Press, 1991: 203.