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Dangerous Relationships: Pornography, Misogyny, and Rape. (Book Reviews)

Archives of Sexual Behavior,  December, 2002  by Todd G. Morrison

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Dangerous Relationships: Pornography, Misogyny, and Rape. By Diana E. H. Russell. Sage, Thousand Oaks, California, 1998,206 pp., $22.95 (paperback).

Russell's volume is dedicated "[t]o all feminists who recognize that pornography is a vicious manifestation of misogyny designed to keep women subordinate to men, and who are committed to the fight for a pornography-free world." Given this dedication, one is hardly surprised that Russell adopts a vehemently antipornography stance throughout her book. Indeed, Dangerous Relationships suggests that pornography is evil incarnate; the material embodiment of masculinist oppression.

Russell's decision to eliminate any pretense of objectivity deviates ...