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A History of Porn

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Pornography Is a Foreground for Feminism

Pornography is a very sort of foreground for feminism I suppose it's one of the subjects that's incredibly polarizing in feminist subjects. Many women and non women who don't have a really open or radical approach to sex based on culture or religion or embodiment or preference or what have you right so there's no reason to think that sex is inherently liberating or that candor about sex is inherently liberated. Anti porn feminists need to be more open to the fact that there's a huge diversity of pornography that pornography can mean different things to different people. Pro sex feminists ought to certainly be more skeptical that sex is always empowering.

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