 The two definitions considered above are purely descriptive: They leave it open whether pornography is good or bad. By contrast, a third approach to defining pornography is value-laden. Sometimes when people describe something (e.g., a book such as Tropic of Capricorn or a film such as Baise Moi) as “pornographic,” they seem to be doing more than simply dispassionately describing its sexually explicit content or the intentions of its producers—indeed, in these debates, the intentions of producers are sometimes treated as irrelevant to the work’s status as pornography. They seem to be saying, in addition, that it is bad—and perhaps also that its badness is not redeemed by other artistic, literary, or political merit the work may possess. (Consider, for example, how the term “visual pornography” is sometimes used to condemn certain artworks, often when the work is not even sexually explicit.)