Is pornography good? Pornography is the theory, rape is the fact. Robin Morgan, editor of the famous feminist magazine Ms., made this provocative statement. This really makes you stop and think. How closely related are pornography and rape, or any other violent act? Many surveys and research studies have been conducted to answer this very question. But the results were very questionable. On the one hand there are people who believe that there is no correlation between the two, that pornography is only used for personal enjoyment and that it stops there. Then there is the feminist point of view which I absolutely disagree with. Two well-known feminists, Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin, have their own view and definition of pornography.þ....Pornography is the sexually explicit subordination of women, whether in images or words, which also includes one or more of the following : (i) Women are presented dehumanized as sexual objects, things or commodities; or (ii) women are presented as sexual objects who enjoy pain or mutilation; or (iii) women are presented as sexual objects who take sexual pleasure in being raped; or (iv) women are presented as sexual objects who are bound, cut, mutilated, bruised or physically injured; or (v) women are presented in positions of sexual submission, subservience, or display; or (vi) parts of women's bodies are exposed, including but not limited to vaginas, breasts, and buttocks, such that women are reduced to those parts; or (vii) women are presented as whores by nature; or (viii) women are shown being penetrated by objects or animals; or (ix) women are presented in scenarios of degradation, injury, torture, shown as dirty or inferior, bleeding, bruised or injured in a context that sexualizes these conditions. “Pornography is further defined as including “the use of men, children and transsexuals in place of women.” It is also said rather cryptically that “the definition does not include all sexually explicit depictions of the subordination of women.” Now that we have a greater understanding of the true meaning of pornography, we should consider the radical feminist view on the harm that pornography can cause. Once again the acclaimed feminist lawyer Catharine MacKinnon states: “If pornography is an act of male supremacy, its harm. it is the harm of male supremacy made difficult to see because of its pervasiveness, potency, and success in making the world a pornographic place”..