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At the broadest level, this book is about the epistemology of law while at the narrowest vantage it is concerned with the possibility of placing gender-based regulations on inegalitarian pornography. In making a case that epistemology can help us find our way through the highly contentious debate about regulating pornography, I examine free speech categories, concepts, and rules. Everything from how to define pornography, to whether pornography constitutes speech or a practice, to whether it harms concerns epistemology. By examining the highly contested legal debate about the regulation of pornography through an epistemic lens, the book project hopes to reveal insights into competing claims about the proper role of speech in our society, pornography’s harm, the relationship between speech and equality, and whether law should regulate and, if so, upon what grounds.