Revised Ordinance No. 1016 (Aug. 23, 1984), in recognition that
pornography: promotes bigotry and contempt and fosters acts of
aggression, which diminish opportunities for equality of rights in
employment, education, property, public accommodations and
public services; creates public and private harassment, persecution
and denigration; promotes injury and degradation such as rape,
bat ery, sexual abuse of children, and prostitution and inhibits just
enforcement of laws against these acts; contributes significantly to
restricting women in particular from full exercise of citizenship
and participation in public life, including in neighborhoods;
damages relations between the sexes; and undermines women’s
equal exercise of rights to speech and action guaranteed to al
citizens under the Constitutions and laws of the United States, the
State of Massachuset s, and the City of Cambridge.
The Code of the City of Cambridge is hereby amended by adding
to Chapter 25, “Human Rights, ” the following amendments
entitled ‘Anti-Pornography Amendments. ’
Appendix C: The Cambridge Ordinance
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CHAPTER 25
HUMAN RIGHTS
ANTI-PORNOGRAPHY AMENDMENTS
A BILL TO AMEND CHAPTER 25, “HUMAN RIGHTS, ”
OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE BY ADDING
PORNOGRAPHY
AS SEX DISCRIMINATION
Section 1: DEFINITION: §E of Chapter 25, “Human Rights, ”
shal be amended to add:
(15)(a) Pornography is the graphic sexually explicit
subordination of women through pictures and/or words that
also includes one or more of the fol owing: (i) women are
presented dehumanized as sexual objects, 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 physical y hurt; or (v) women are
presented in postures of sexual submission, servility, or display;
or (vi) women’s body parts - including but not limited to
vaginas, breasts, or but ocks - 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 as being
penetrated by objects or animals; or (ix) women are presented
in scenarios of degradation, injury, torture, shown as filthy or
inferior, bleeding, bruised or hurt in a context that makes these
conditions sexual.
(b) The use of men, children, or transsexuals in the place of
