Amy Adler
Associate Professor, New York University School of Law
The Columbia Law Review
March, 2001
Found at < http://eon.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/Speech/Adler_full.html >
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"[...] in this Article I raise questions about the censorship imposed by child pornography laws. I argue that these laws, intended to protect children from sexual exploitation, threaten to reinforce the very problem they attack. The legal tool that we designed to liberate children from sexual abuse threatens to enslave us all, by constructing a world in which we are enthralled - anguished, enticed, bombarded - by the spectacle of the sexual child.
I.
THE CULTURAL CRISIS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
[Introduction
to Part I]
A.
The discovery and rise of child sexual abuse
B.
The discovery of child pornography
1.
Public Awareness
2.
Law Enforcement
3.
Statistics
II.
THE LAW OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
[Introduction to
part III]
A.
Creation Of Child Pornography Law
B.
Definition of "Child Pornography"
C.
Rationale for Prohibiting Child Pornography
III.
TABOO, TRANSGRESSION, AND THE INCREASED SEXUAL ALLURE OF CHILDREN
[Introduction to part III]
A.
The Dialectic Between Prohibition And Transgression
B.
Sex and Transgression
C.
Child Pornography Law and Mainstream Pedophilia
IV.
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY LAW AND THE PROLIFERATION OF THE SEXUAL CHILD
[Introduction
to part IV]
A.
Surveillance and the Pedophilic Gaze
B.
Producing the Sexual Child
1. Resignification
2.
Discourse and Foucault
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