 Secondly, liberals have defended a right to pornography on the grounds of a right to privacy (or “moral independence,” as one prominent liberal defender of pornography, Ronald Dworkin [1985], calls it), which protects a sphere of private activity within which individuals can explore and indulge their own personal tastes and convictions, free from the threat of coercive pressure or interference by the state and other individuals. Andrew Altman (2018) defends a right to pornography as part of a right to sexual autonomy. The specter of state intrusion into the private lives of individuals underpins much of the liberal discomfort about censorship of pornography.