The Statutory Definition Of Pornography

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against the subordination of women. Any man, child or
transsexual who alleges injury by pornography in the
way women are injured by it also has a claim.
[emphasis added]

My goal in this paper is to suggest that a slight modification to this
subsection of the ordinance would make it very difficult for liberals and
legal conservatives to object to it. This modification would restrict the
cause of action to the same persons as the other sections of the ordinance,
namely, the particular victim of the specified injury. I shall argue that
such a modification would largely cohere with the conception of harm
already at work in Ontario law, would afford only a minor reduction in the
potential efficacy of such legislation in curbing the harm of pornography,
and would offer to empower the feminist camp which is behind such an
ordinance with a mechanism for social and political change if a
sufficiently organized feminist "vanguard" took hold of the ...

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worthy of equal concern
and respect in the eyes of the state permeates liberal conceptions of
rights. It is also a fundamental, if not exclusive, tenet of the common
law of torts:
In tort litigation, the courts must decide whether to
shift the loss suffered by one person, the plaintiff,
to the shoulders of another person [emphasis added].

Clearly, on its face this conception of harm precludes the notion of a
harm suffered collectively which cannot be delineated individually. While
class actions are possible, and claims may be made on behalf of groups such
as company shareholders, this is only by virtue of the fact that a legally
recognized ...

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