Abstract
Unlike Singapore and in most other countries in this part of Asia, pornographic material is widely available in Hong Kong. There is a big market in X- rated videos, a large proportion of films on the commercial circuit are softly pornographic, and dirty magazines are freely available, and circulate around schoolrooms. Some members of the public, leaders of the community and social workers see this as cause for concern but, so it might be argued, it is not one of the most important things for moral philosophers to worry about.
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Goldstein, L. (1996). Is the Dissemination of Pornography Harmful to Women?. In: Becker, G.K. (eds) Ethics in Business and Society. Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61442-2_9
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