Populo Volume 2 Issue 1

of Austin (1976) and Langton (1993) to provide a coherent explanation for how

pornography can be classed as speech that harms women through subordination and

stops their speech counting. It provides the recommendation that Langton (1993)

accepts that uptake is present in illocutionary disablement in order for the way in

which she reaches her conclusion to remain justified, as well as providing a case for

the censorship and banning of pornography and pornographic content.

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