By engaging in an empirical investigation of the pornography industry itself, the authors of this text - each grounded in the radical feminist anti-pornography movement - intend to move beyond the rhetorical bomb-tossing of an often polarized debate. The authors engage in a systematic examination of the politics, production, content and consumption of contemporary mass-market heterosexual pornography, with the aim of contributing to a fuller understanding of pornography's role in the cultural construction of gender, racial and sexual identities and relations. They begin with an overview of...