Noam Chomsky appeared in a prominent Adult Magazine and was seen as an endorsement. However, when he was interviewed by them, they did not reveal which magazine they represented but only revealed who they interviewed. They also did not send him a transcript of the interview, which is standard procedure.
When Chomsky was asked, “What is your view of pornography?”, he responded, “It is humiliation and the degredation of women. It’s disgrace activity. I don’t want to be associated with it…women are degraded as vulgar sex objects. It’s not what human beings are.”
When Chomsky was asked, “But didn’t porn performers choose to do the job and get paid?”, he responded, “The fact that people agreed to it and are paid is about as convincing as the fact that we should be in favor of sweatshops in China where women are locked in a factory and work 15 hours a day. Then the factory burns down and they all die. Yes they were paid and consented, but doesn’t make me in favor of it. So that argument we can’t even talk about it. As to the fact that it is some people’s erotica. That’s their problem; it doesn’t mean I have to contribute to it. If they get enjoyment out of humiliation of women, they have a problem. It’s nothing I want to contribute to it.”








