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Can Pornography be Feminist in a Mass Market Economy?

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Can Pornography be Feminist in a Mass Market Economy?
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Artist: Felicien Rops (1833 – 1898)



Undergraduate Highly Commended paper in the 2026 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By Leela Kainth.



Mainstream pornography refers to conventional, mass-marketed, sexually explicit material produced at commercial scale, typically for consumers to masturbate to. This is distinct from so-called ‘feminist pornography’, which self-consciously aims to resist these norms through alternative representations and focus on production et

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