![]() That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. "The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. The provenance of the harm principle is John Stuart Mill's On Liberty : ![]() These shifts in debate take off not from considerations of the immorality (in the sense of a puritanical approach to sexual matters) of various forms of sexual violation, but from is often known as the "harm principle" - a central tenet of liberalism and sexual liberalism both. It is barely thirty years since sexual harassment was recognised in Australian law as a form of sexual discrimination rather than as the bad manners of what my mother called the "Wandering Hands Society." Similar shifts in the meaning and breadth of the term harm are taking place in debates around, for example, other forms of harassment, sexual assault, pornography, prostitution. Perhaps even more important in terms of long-term change in the sexual landscape is that we are questioning and systematically re-thinking what counts as harm - sexual harm. ![]() Helen Pringle is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales.Īs the movement now coalescing around #MeToo has picked up momentum over the last decade, women working alone and together have pushed back at individual perpetrators of sexual harm, and have been particularly successful in cases of sexual violation in the workplace.
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