In 24 hours time MEPs will vote on a “ban on all forms of pornography” in a bid to “eliminate gender stereotypes” that demean women. But porn is not the cause of gender stereotypes; so eliminating it will not end them, argues Dr Brooke Magnanti.Tomorrow MEPs will vote on the contents of a report prepared by the EU’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. A report that, as it happens, proposes banning pornography in all media (including internet) throughout the 27 member states.At this stage the report is not a legislative measure – though it does point to the direction future legislation could take, and the votes will indicate how we could expect that to go. If the MEPs vote in favour it will also, in all likelihood, be used to justify censorship measures elsewhere.
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Banning porn in the EU won’t make women and men equal
In 24 hours time MEPs will vote on a “ban on all forms of pornography” in a bid to “eliminate gender stereotypes” that demean women. But porn is not the cause of gender stereotypes; so eliminating it will not end them, argues Dr Brooke Magnanti.