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This 5 page paper looks at Canada's laws against pornography, and specifically a 1993 law that was challenged in Canada's courts in 1999. How child pornographers are treated in Canada is a focus of this paper. Several recent cases are cited. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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the argument made for sex crimes such as prostitution and adult film making? When children are used in such films and pictures, it is clear that the youngsters themselves
are hurt and significantly exploited. They have been violated and few children can escape such a young life without permanent psychological scars. That is why the Canadian court system has
seen fit to strengthen laws against child pornography. However, one of its strongest laws has been recently challenged and is currently being debated. One predicament that always arises in
a discussion on pornography is what it is exactly. It is a concept that is hard to define, although most people can probably explain just what it is. The definition
of pornography, as contained in the "The Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance" is "a concrete description of the materials the pornography industry makes and sells: graphic sexually explicit materials that subordinate
women and others. It is not a description of any ideas pornography expresses.... this definition is not restricted to violent material. This is because the violence of pornography is not
limited to materials that show violence. Women are coerced into materials that show no violence.... Pornography showing no violence is violently forced on women and children" (Dworkin et al 1998,
p.PG). Courts in the West have been struggling with the definition for quite awhile as they try to keep a balance for the right to free speech but at
the same time want to suppress an extensive creation and distribution of pornographic materials (Serrill, 1992). What constitutes an obscenity? What is pornography exactly? Carter (1998) says that pornography is
defined as writings and pictures and any other materials designed to be sexually arousing (1998). In Canada, for example, the term "obscene material," includes things such as "the
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