Significance R v Glad Day Bookshops Inc

the case symbolic pornography advocates, @ time trying demonstrate arguments of anti-porn feminists catharine mackinnon , andrea dworkin antithetical women s interests. have claimed mackinnon had provided of arguments new obscenity law in canada - law disproportionately limited voices of gay , lesbian writers, , led impounding of 2 titles written dworkin. mackinnon , dworkin have denied these claims , stated new interpretation of law, introduced butler decision (r. v. butler, [1992] 1 s.c.r. 452 (supreme court of canada)), declares obscenity law unconstitutional if used restrict materials on moral basis, constitutional if used promote sex equality. thus, decision makes illegal censor material on basis of explicit homosexual content, such material censored if shown harm women. impounding of dworkin s books, 2 titles in fact held temporalily inspection in 1993, done according canadian custom s pre-butler procedures new procedures introduced butler not implemented customs yet.