Editor’s note: Earlier this month, NewsRealBlog contributor Megan Fox wrote a fiery post attributing the pornification of our culture to Second Wave feminists. Phyllis Chesler, a veritable Second Wave icon, countered with a passionate defense of the Second Wave’s successes, reminding us of the ideological diversity in her generation of feminism. Far from being apologists for pornography and prostitution, Dr. Chesler and many of her feminist compatriots formed an “abolitionist” alliance with Christian and conservative activists to challenge those who defended “sex work” and pornography on First Amendment grounds. The following piece begins to explore some of that common ground.
This sort of stuff has the potential of causing a split between social conservatives and the rest of the conservative movement, with some social conservatives allying themselves with leftist radical feminists over porn.
There’s a different between freedom and approbation. Porn isn’t a good thing for the people who work in it.
Yes, freedom permits them to engage in that activity, and there will always be a market for that activity, but how many of you would want your daughters to be engaged in that activity?
I guess some social conservatives will have to choose between the Constitution and morality, not an easy one.
I know one who would say that “porn” leads to marxism. So does throwing out the right to free speech.
In the Citizens United case, a movie was considered free speech. I know what I would choose.
LOL, you sound like a social liberal that is part of the post 1960s America, stop conservatism, fight Christianity, fight traditional American conservatism, crowd.
Porn was not allowed until the left tookover America.
Why not? They are the same type of people, they just chose a "side" based on what scared them earliest in life.
I wonder what their stance is on how women are treated in muslim societies?