ages "delays the process of critique of the media from the feminist perspective, the only thing that will lead to a full assault on the repressive production and distribution systems that currently exist within the mass media" .
Instead, the feminist approach to the sex industry must be more encompassing than merely focusing on censoring pornography, if indeed such action is even necessary or desirable. Varda Burstyn argues that the feminist response to the sex industry must instead attempt to ensure that women are no longer victimized by police and social policies. We must address the needs of sex-workers by improving the quality of their working lives and creating alternatives to sex work. Burstyn believes that repressive measures such as censorship and criminalization are harmful and counterproductive because they serve only to worsen the position of sex-workers vis-a-vis those who control the industry.
Although she is the only author under discussion who advocates the censorship of pornography, Cole's defin
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