e viewpoint is patroned by Betty Friedan who argues that what one woman mayview as sensual another may view as pornography. While Friedan does express concernover some content of porn, she expresses greater concern over the anti-porn feministmovement. She believes that to further censorship in the United States to suppresspornography is extremely dangerous to women. She believes that the danger is due to thefact that this movement aligns the liberal womans movement with the right wing of theconservative agenda. Friedan believes that only the conservatives have anything to gainfrom such an alliance. By examining the counterpoints on this issue, it is very easy to seewhy polarization is widely used.I would now like to focus on the movement ideology. I would like to take acloser look at the ideology itself, the barriers faced and the prevalent ideology which is tobe overcome.The ideology supported by the anti-pornography movement is complicated. While they are a feminist group and would not want censorship to prevail, there isundeniable evidence that pornography hurts women. The anti-porn movement focuses onthe way in which women are portrayed in this medium. They also focus on the way thatsex crimes are caused or promoted by the use of pornography. This makes for a variedsupport system for the movement. While a great majority of this country does not usepornography and would not suffer in its absence, it is still an issue of freedom whichmust be addressed. The anti-pornography has one major complaint against the presentstatus of pornography in this country. This is that women are being hurt by the use ofpornography. While they do express concern over the actresses involved in the makingof the films, they express more concern that this sex and violence against womenperpetuates itself to everyday lives and effects innocent women.The main ideology that the anti-porn movement seeks to advance is to seriouslylimit the production a...
