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Social Science Gay Studies

Gay Male Pornography

An Issue of Sex Discrimination

by (author) Christopher N. Kendall

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2005
Category
Gay Studies, Minority Studies, General, Discrimination, Gender & the Law
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774810777
    Publish Date
    Jan 2005
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774810760
    Publish Date
    Sep 2004
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774851152
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $34.95

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The 2000 case of Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Customs Canada provided Canada’s highest court with its first opportunity to consider whether the analysis set out in R. v. Butler – in which the Supreme Court identified pornography as an issue of sex discrimination – applies to pornography intended for a lesbian or gay male audience. The Court held that it did, finding that, like heterosexual pornography, same-sex pornography also violates the sex equality interests of all Canadians. Christopher Kendall supports this finding, arguing that gay male pornography reinforces those social attitudes that create systemic inequality on the basis of sex and sexual orientation – misogyny and homophobia alike – by sexually conditioning gay men to those attitudes and practices.

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Contributor Notes

Originally from Toronto, Christopher N. Kendall is currently Dean of Law at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia.