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The Dartmouth
July 5, 2025 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth

"Tasteful" Pornography?

To the Editor:

Welton Chang ("Putting Pornography in Context," May 19) writes, "Pornography as depicted in magazines such as Playboy can be done in tasteful ways." It's good to know that there are "tasteful" ways to objectify a woman! The fact that pornography is approved by "feminists of many persuasions" for the value of its (vague and unnamed) "social processes" says more about those particular feminists than it does about porn, which was characterized by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1965's Ginzburg v. United States as being "utterly without redeeming social importance."