With the growing visibility and influence of the women’s movement, the subject of pronography and its effect on sexual abuse of women has received renewed attention. (See Lederer’s 1980 edited collection of readings on the topic.) Of the published materials on pronography and sex abuse, there is a sizable literature which found no relationship between pronography and sex crimes. Most famous of these is the 1970 report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, which concluded that its “empirical investigation provided no evidence that ex- posure to or use of explicit sexual materials plays a significant role in the causa- tion of social or individual harm” (Barnes, 1970).

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