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Comparison and Contrast A First Amendment Junkie ' by Susan Jacoby and Let`s Put Pornography Back in the Closet ' by Susan Brownmiller are both illustrative essay that present the subjective views of the stated authors on the issue of feminine depiction in pornography and constitutional rights of free speech and expression . Both have taken different stance on the same issue and conclude their justification that originates from the same source i .e . the first amendments that protects the individual rights of freedom

of expression . Both further provide various legal verdicts on the same issue but with different ruling to strengthen their claim Susan Jacoby believes in the absolute interpretation ' of First Amendment that says

`Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion , or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech , or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble , and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances (U .S . Constitution She is of the view that feminist and other feminist groups try to manipulate this amendment by interpreting in various ways . She further asserts that these groups are a prey to fictitious idealism that pornography and its various manifestations are of a different nature than a simple question of freedom of speech . For example , she says Many feminist arguments for control on pornography carry the implicit conviction that porn book , magazines and movies pose a greater threat to women than similarly repulsive exercises of free speech pose to other offended groups (Susan Jacoby Susan Brownmiller , the celebrated writer of Against our Will Men Women and Rape , also relies on First Amendment to guard the feminist point of view against pornography and says that Free speech is one of the great foundations on which our democracy rests (Susan Brownmiller . But unlike Susan Jacoby , she takes a different stance about first amendment and its relationship with pornography . She asserts that To equate the free and robust exchange of ideas and political debate with commercial exploitations of obscene material demeans the grand conception of Firs Amendments and its high purposes in the historic struggle for freedom . It is a misuse of the great guarantees of the free speech and free press (Susan Brownmiller So both have utilized the constitutional perspective to serve their own interest and present an ambivalent interpretation of First Amendments . Both are unable to answer certain other questions Like Susan Jacoby says that Kiddie porn is not a First Amendments issue . She labels that as an exploitation of power that adults have over children . Here she intentionally ignores this important issues and negates his own arguments of absolute interpretations of First Amendment . Whereas Brownmiller describes the Miller vs . California case to support her own arguments whereas ruling of the case hold firmly that free expression of speech . Although it asked States to devise new laws about obscenity but it strengthened the free speech (Miller vs California

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