summary/ response to A First Amendment Junkie

           According to feminist author, Susan Jacoby's essay " A First Amendment Junkie," the First Amendment should be based on absolute interpretation solely. Throughout her essay she brings up several cases that people have brought up as exceptions to the Amendment, but she states that they are just a mere misdirection. Kiddie Porn is a circumstance that many argue should be an exception to the Amendment. However, according to Jacoby, Kiddie Porn and the First Amendment are not related. Kiddie Porn is just an abuse of power that one has bestowed upon themselves and it should be punished by law, but not as disobeying the First Amendment. Throughout Susan Jacoby's essay, she makes it very clear that the First Amendment should have no exceptions. Even though there are those who believe that pornography violates this Amendment, she states that it does not apply. The First Amendment is an absolute interpretation solely.

         In response to Feminist author, Susan Jacoby's essay on the "First Amendment Junkie," I thought that she made some very good points, however I did not necessarily care for the way that Jacoby argued her piece. I found myself numerous times having to re-read the paragraph to understand what exactly it was that she way trying to convey. I liked the fact that she used  the neo-Nazis marching on the survivors of an extermination camp as an allegory to the "porn shops on 42nd Street." I think that was one of her strongest points that she made throughout the essay.
          Her last point that she makes, even though it is a valid point, the way she argued it could have been portrayed better. Her main message was who decides the difference between art and trash. Who is to say that to one person, pornography is trash and to the other pornography is art? However, when reading this paragraph about art vs. trash, I found it confusing at some points. I struggled to figure out the main message, she was actually trying to say. Overall she was arguing a very controversial subject and I thought that she did well in not straying from the point she was trying to make.