Editor’s Message In his Critique of Pure Reason (1929, Palg rave; http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/ Philosophy/Kant/cpr), Immanuel Kant showe d how it can be that all our knowledge begins with experience, yet in order to mak e sense of those experiences we must know other things first. He focused especi ally on the fact that we frame experiences in space and time but cannot deriv e the ideas of spac...

This paper examines an issue at the centre of feminist debates about pornography and sex work, and that is whether these practices reduce women to sex objects. I question the assumption that the expression of sexual desire is unique in its power to degrade and dehumanize persons. I show that this assumption underlies Catharine MacKinnon’s attack on pornography by considering MacKinnon’s intelle...