Better that rape and battery should continue unchallenged, and the law be used by some men against other men with no reference to the rightful protection of women. Male counsel on pornography, especially from leftist lawyers, has also been abundant. We have been accused of trivializing feminism by our fury at the hatred of women expressed in pornography. We have even been criticized for picketing, the logic being that an exhibitor of pornography might cave in under the pressure which would constitute a dangerous precedent. The First Amendment, it should be noted, belongs to those who can buy it.
Men have the economic clout.
Pornographers have empires. Women are economically disadvantaged and barely have token access to the media. The fact of the matter is that if the First Amendment does not work for women, it does not work. With that premise as principle, perhaps the good lawyers might voluntarily put away the dirty pictures and figure out a way to make freedom of speech the reality for women that it already is for the literary and visual pimps. They have their priorities set.