Eine Zensur der Kunst gibt es nicht? Die Gesetze zur Kinderpornographie - eine erneute Betrachtung am Beispiel zweier europäischer Falle.

Abstract

(the article was published in German) Sex Wars might seem to be a short episode in the more general cultural wars of the last
century. They might also be perceived as the longest battle in the history of humanity, since – as
Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner write in their article Sex in Public, “There is nothing more
public, than privacy” (Berlant and Warner, 1998, 547). In the 1980’s the Polish anti-communist
opposition was fighting for a state without censorship, blatantly believing that such place could ever
exist. It was only after 1989 that some of us realized, that censorship never dies, that every society
produces its regimes of truth, the only difference being, that instead of the protection granted to the
principles of the real socialism, now special safety is granted to the combined forces of the market
and the Catholic Church (see also: J. Butler, 1997). As some authors argue, the contemporary caring
gaze of the sovereigns in the Western countries complements the austerity cuts in the neoliberal
reshaping of capitalist economies of today.Judith Levine suggests, that the recent acts of protection
of children from pornography constitute just another side of the transformation of the social state
into a neoliberal one. She writes, that: “The social correlate of economic privatization is ” (Levine, 2002).