Rae Langton and Caroline West argue that pornography silences women by presupposing misogynistic attitudes, such as that women enjoy being raped. More precisely, they claim that a somewhat infamous pictorial, ‘Dirty Pool’, makes such presuppositions, and that it is typical in this respect. I argue for four claims. (1) There are empirical reasons to doubt that women are silenced in the way that Langton and West claim they are. (2) There is no evidence that very much pornography makes the sorts of presuppositions that Langton and West's explanation of silencing requires it to make. (3) Even ‘Dirty Pool’, for all its other problems, does not make such presuppositions. (4) Langton and West misread ‘Dirty Pool’ because they do not take proper account of the fact that pornography often traffics in sexual fantasy. The broader lesson is that we need to read pornography more sensitively if we are to understand its capacity to shape socio-sexual norms (for good or for ill).

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色情作品是否以强奸神话为前提？

雷·兰顿和卡罗琳·韦斯特认为，色情作品通过预设厌恶女性的态度（例如女性喜欢被强奸）来让女性保持沉默。更准确地说，他们声称，一张有点臭名昭著的画报《肮脏的泳池》做出了这样的预设，并且在这方面很典型。我主张四个主张。(1) 有实证理由怀疑女性是否像兰顿和韦斯特声称的那样沉默。（2）没有证据表明很多色情作品都做出了兰顿和韦斯特对沉默的解释所要求的那种预设。(3) 即使是《肮脏的泳池》，尽管存在其他问题，也没有做出这样的预设。(4) 兰顿和韦斯特误读了《肮脏的泳池》，因为他们没有正确考虑色情作品经常传播性幻想的事实。更广泛的教训是，如果我们想了解色情作品塑造社会性规范（无论好坏）的能力，我们就需要更敏感地阅读色情作品。