vative and feminist leaders and groups. The "effects" of pornography are said by the anti-pornography forces to be the violent or anti-social sexual behavior of some men who partake of pornography. Again, as Kutchinsky says, the results of legitimate studies over the years do not support such an argument against pornography based on such effects. The arguments against pornography remain vociferous, but the data to support those arguments are weak at best.
In the section on the definition of pornography and the findings of public commissions designed to define and analyze it and its effects, the author notes that those findings have more to do with the era in which the study is being undertaken than with hard data which would support those findings. In other words, the difference between commissions of different time periods--only a decade apart, in fact--is politic
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