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Donnerstein's study was referred to in a case and has been used to justify the prohibition of pornography although he himself strongly criticized the use of his work for criminalizing pornography in his book THE QUESTION OF PORNOGRAPHY.

The methodology used in laboratory studies have been effectively attacked. See Wm. Fisher, "The emperor is wearing no clothes" in the anthology REGULATING SEX. Also Dany Lacombe in her book BLUE POLITICS and Avedon Carol the British feminist. From what I've read feminists dominate the debate on porn on both sides..