things or commodities; or
(i ) women are presented as sexual objects who enjoy pain
or humiliation; or
(i i) women are presented as sexual objects who experience
sexual pleasure in being raped; or
(iv) women are presented as sexual objects tied up or cut up
or mutilated or bruised or physically hurt; or
(v) women are presented in postures of sexual submission;
or
(vi) women’s body parts - including but not limited to
vaginas, breasts, and buttocks - are exhibited, such that
women are reduced to those parts; or
(vi ) women are presented as whores by nature; or
(vi i) women are presented being penetrated by objects or
animals; or
(ix) women are presented in scenarios of degradation,
injury, abasement, torture, shown as filthy or inferior,
bleeding, bruised, or hurt in a context that makes these
conditions sexual.
(2) The use of men, children, or transsexuals in the place of
women in (1) (i-ix) above is pornography for purposes of
subsections (1) - (p) of this statute.
Section 4. That section 139. 40 of the above-mentioned ordinance
be amended by adding thereto new subsections (1), (m), (n), (o),
(p), (q), (r) and (s) to read as fol ows:
(1) Discrimination by trafficking in pornography. The production,
sale, exhibition, or distribution of pornography is discrimination
against women by means of trafficking in pornography:
(1) City, state, and federally funded public libraries or private
and public university and college libraries in which
pornography is available for study, including on open shelves,
shal not be construed to be traf icking in pornography but
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special display presentations of pornography in said places is
sex discrimination.
(2) The formation of private clubs or associations for purposes
of traf icking in pornography is il egal and shal be considered
a conspiracy to violate the civil rights of women.
(3) Any woman has a cause of action hereunder as a woman
acting against the subordination of women. Any man or
transsexual who al eges injury by pornography in the way
women are injured by it shal also have a cause of action.
(m) Coercion into pornographic performances. Any person,
including transsexual, who is coerced, intimidated, or fraudulently
induced (hereafter “coerced”) into performing for pornography
shal have a cause of action against the maker(s), sel er(s),
exhibitor(s) or distributor(s) of said pornography for damages and
