Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate

Over the past twenty years debates about pornography have raged within feminism and beyond. Throughout the 1970s feminists increasingly addressed the problem of men's sexual violence against women, and many women reduced the politics of men's power to questions about sexuality. By the 1980s these questions had become more and more focused on the issue of pornography—now a metaphor for the menace of male power. Collapsing feminist politics into sexuality and sexuality into pornography has no...