represents a materially new element of the censorship debate. Some feminist positions on various political issues, which are generally held to be derived from the liberal tradition, appear where censorship is concerned predicated of the politically conservative notion of the unwilling participant in the experience of obscene materials. But there is also evidence of a debate on the issue within the feminist intellectual community itself. As the political and social stakes rise on the confuence of civil rights, sexual discrimination, feminism, and censorship, not only the censorship debate as such but also basic research into the field has ranged outside the educational environment. One feminist argument seeks to put pornography outside the First Amendment arena and into the arena of civil rights of pornography's victims (Winkler, passim). Some feminists argue censorship of pornography variously as an affirmation of creative love principles (Tong passim) or a sociopolitical "empowerment" strategy for oppressed minorities (Thompson 44; Bogdan passim). Mean
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