All Porn All the Time
Introduction
Amy Adler{{Professor of Law, NYU School of Law. For helpful comments I am grateful to Matthew Benjamin, Marjorie Heins, Andy Koppelman and Lenn Robbins. Charlotte Taylor provided superb research assistance.}}
I want to begin this symposium by making a controversial assertion: In the escalating war against pornography, pornography has already won. I make this claim not to take a side in the porn wars, but rather to observe, bluntly, the new world in which we live.
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