"A First Amendment Junkie" Summary

In the published New York Times essay "A First Amendment Junkie," Susan Jacoby, a feminist, gives hard incite to the ideas of monitoring and censoring types of pornography. The main point of her essay was to argue the fact that censoring pornography is not right and how there are far worse things than pornography or censoring it. She explains that many feminists will take the side of women not involved in feminism; they will also agree to censor things like abortion without hearing the main issue and automatically assuming the topic is wrong to begin with. She uses the example of the Holocaust and the Nazis to show how pornography is not as bad as this event or these evil people. Jacoby also uses the example or "kiddie porn" to make the reader realize that this is not pornography but has to do with the abuse of children; this is not a first amendment issue. Her last argument is that feminists should not rely on the government to solve all of their issues but for people to accept the fact that it is the peoples' fault for associating violence with pornography, therefore, making the censorship of pornography absurd.