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The Politics of Pornography Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Berl Kutchinsky
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In his review essay on three recent books on pornography, harms, and politics in Law & Society Review, Steven Childress (1991) has transmitted false information about my criminological research on pornography. Since such misinformation is, in part, responsible for considerable confusion about the outcome of aggregate studies of the effects of pornography on sex crimes, redress is necessary. Misinformation about crucial pornography research may have serious consequences for pornography politics and makes one wonder about the politics of pornography research.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , 1992 , pp. 447 - 455
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Copyright © 1992 by The Law and Society Association.

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