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Pornography is generally defined in law as material that has a tendency to deprave those who consume it.
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Judge Richard A. Posner has repeatedly applied orthodox free market Chicagoan law and economic thinking to porn in several of his books (Sex and Reason, Frontiers of Legal Theory, Economic Analysis of Law). Heterodox economist David George (2001) briefly discusses porn as an instance of what he calls “preference pollution.” In this scenario, free markets impose weakness of will upon us leading to the “wrong choice” of consumption basket. We end up less well-off than we might otherwise have been because we are weak and fall prey to market pressures to consume porn. Despite the passage of time, there is little research on this topic that falls very directly in the law and economics field. That which there is tends to simply assume with George that pornography is “bad” and consumption of it is a manifestation of weakness...
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Cameron, S. (2021). Pornography. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_575-2
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