Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality

1. “Pornography” means the graphic sexually explicit

subordination of women through pictures and/or words that also

includes one or more of the fol owing:

a. women are presented dehumanized as sexual objects, things

or commodities; or

b. women are presented as sexual objects who enjoy

humiliation or pain; or

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c. women are presented as sexual objects experiencing sexual

pleasure in rape, incest, or other sexual assault; or

d. women are presented as sexual objects tied up or cut up or

mutilated or bruised or physically hurt; or

e. women are presented in postures or positions of sexual

submission, servility, or display; or

f. women’s body parts—including but not limited to vaginas,

breasts, or buttocks—are exhibited such that women are

reduced to those parts; or

g. women are presented being penetrated by objects or

animals; or

h. women are presented in scenarios of degradation,

humiliation, injury, 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 (a) of this definition is also pornography for purposes of this law.

3. “Person” shal include child or transsexual.

Section 3. CAUSES OF ACTION

1. Coercion into pornography. It is sex discrimination to coerce, intimidate, or fraudulently induce (hereafter, “coerce”) any person

into performing for pornography, which injury may date from any

appearance or sale of any product(s) of such performance^). The

maker(s), seller(s), exhibitor(s) and/or distributor(s) of said

pornography may be sued for damages and for an injunction,

including to eliminate the product(s) of the performance(s) from

the public view.

Proof of one or more of the following facts or conditions shal not,

without more, preclude a finding of coercion:

a. that the person is a woman; or

b. that the person is or has been a prostitute; or

c. that the person has at ained the age of majority; or

d. that the person is connected by blood or marriage to anyone

involved in or related to the making of the pornography; or

e. that the person has previously had, or been thought to have

had, sexual relations with anyone, including anyone involved

in or related to the making of the pornography; or

f. that the person has previously posed for sexually explicit

pictures with or for anyone, including anyone involved in or