Mailer and the Second Wavers by Charlotte Allen. “The Prisoner of Sex”—in both magazine and book form — was largely a baroque riposte to Kate Millett’s bestselling feminist polemic Sexual Politics. From the beginning, it was a contest between the outsize personalities of Greer and Mailer over who was to own the evening. Greer, six […]

by Mona Charen. Much of the feminist project of the past half century, with its denial of sex differences and its insistence on stamping out sex roles, was misbegotten. Humans are not “assigned” sexes; we are male and female. Our differences are complementary, not superior or inferior. Decades of war between the sexes have led […]

At its core, #MeToo represents a rejection of the sixties’ vision of erotic liberation. by Kay S. Hymowitz. In the quest for what Herbert Marcuse, one of the period’s guiding philosophers, called the “liberation of instinctual needs and satisfactions which have hitherto remained tabooed or repressed,” revolutionaries rejected all forms of “social control” as both […]

by Mallory Millett. “And how do we destroy the American Patriarch?” she replied. “By taking away his power!” “How do we do that?” “By destroying monogamy!” they shouted. “How can we destroy monogamy?” “By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution and homosexuality!”

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 John Heidenry. Endowed with ferocious legal cunning, she [MacKinnon] was to play Robespierre to Dworkin’s pamphleteering, emotional Marat in the radical feminist Reign of Terror against men that was to wash over the country in the coming decade.

Certainly, one of children’s essential rights is to express themselves sexually, probably primarily with each other but with adults as well. So the sexual freedom of children is an important part of a sexual revolution. How do we bring this about? The problem here is that when you have an exploitative situation between adults and […]

by Kate Millett. Then in 1970, feminist Kate Millett published her book, Sexual Politics, that popularized the Marxist-inspired concept, “patriarchy.” Millett described patriarchy as a “most ingenious system of social control” that subordinates women through socialization, economic dependency, and normalized violence, she claimed.