Status Updates From XXX: A Woman's Right to Por...

"Through such techniques as embryo transplants and in vitro fertilization, women in their sixties are now able to bear children. Soon there will be new family categories: sperm donor fathers, postmenopausal mothers, test-tube babies. The NRTs will redefine terms like motherhood and the family."

Haha wow this sounds so old fashioned (written in the late 90s). Almost like "someday we'll have flying machines!"

"Degrading is a subjective term. Personally, I find detergent commercials in which women become orgasmic over soapsuds to be tremendously degrading to women. I find movies in which prostitutes are treated like ignorant drug addicts to be slander against women. Every woman has the right-the need!-to define degradation for herself." YES!

"If feminism and pornography are naturally fellow travelers, how did they arrive at the ideological impasse that exists today?"

I love the history parts of this book! I'm learning so much. It's crazy that there was a time when publishing info about birth control was illegal under the grounds that it was "obscene" and "impure". Just crazy. Somehow there are always people who want to regulate sexual private lives

“Radical feminists argue that women all have the same collective interest, and only one sexually proper choice. Individualist feminists celebrate the diverse sexuality of individual women.

This book provides pornography with an ideology. It gives back to women what anti-porn feminism has taken away: the right to pursue their own sexuality without shame or apology, without guilt or censure.”
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Yes !!!

“Pornography benefits women, both personally and politically. After reading this, anti-pornography (or radical) feminists will consider me a heretic-fit only for burning. (…)
In other words, if I enjoy pornography, it is not because I am a unique human being with different preferences. It is because I am psychologically ill.”

Wow this is the very first paragraph of the preface. I like this already!

Available online here:

https://archive.ph/20120629182137/htt...

it's bad