by Michelle Goldberg. Sex positivity — the idea that feminism should privilege sexual pleasure and fight sexual repression — has dominated feminism for most of my life. It was a reaction to puritanical trends in feminism that ignored the reality of women’s desires. Some second-wave feminists had treated heterosexual sex — as well as remotely […]

By Susan Faludi. “The end goal of feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist movement, not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself: genital difference between human beings would no longer matter culturally.”

by Ellen Willis. 1992. What is especially disconcerting, to those of us who believe that an understanding of sexuality is crucial to a feminist analysis, is that feminists are as confused, divided, and dogmatic about sex as everyone else.” … “Our most passionate convictions about sex do not necessarily reflect our real desires; they are […]