by Kristin Olson

About the author: Kristin Olson was a third-year law student at the University of Oregon School of Law and associate editor of the Oregon Law Review when she wrote this viewpoint. She is now law clerk to the Hon. Robert Wolheim, judge at the Oregon Court of Appeals.

Editor’s Note: Originally written as a comment (a synopsis of a case including a detailed commentary) for the Oregon Law Review, this viewpoint proposes model statutes that would offer civil and criminal remedies for those harmed by pornography. These suggested laws would hold the pornographer as well as the perpetrator of the violent acts liable for prosecution. The statutes were never submitted to the Oregon legislature.

Violent depictions of women in submissive positions . . . exist throughout pornography and are replicated in sex crimes. In numerous instances, women...