Author: Wendy McElroy
Wendy McElroy’s latest book is The Reasonable Woman. She is a FREE INQUIRY contributing editor.
True Stories from Pro-Sex Feminists
Tales from the Clit: A Female Experience of Pornography, edited by Cherie Matrix (San Francisco: AK Press, 1996 ISBN 1-873176-09-0) 144 pp., $10.95 paper. The famed American anarchist Emma Goldman once declared that, if she couldn’t dance, she wouldn’t be part of the revolution. Thus did Goldman reject the notion that working toward a just …
A Feminist Defense of Pornography
What’s porn got to do with human well-being and freedom? Pornography benefits women, both personally and politically.” This sentence opens my book XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography, and it constitutes a more extreme defense of pornography than most feminists are comfortable with. I arrived at this position after years of interviewing hundreds of sex …