The supposed artistic and literary sufferings of a nation of consumers deprived of sexual content in their daily media do not impress me as half so severe as those of the women being coerced on a daily basis in the sex entertainment industry. If I had to make a choice between a highly censorious government which reduced the traffic in women and children, and a liberal and tolerant government which encouraged that traffic, I believe I might choose the former . Basically, the health and happiness of women and children matter more to me than my freedom or right to read a dirty book. It seems to me that what wins public regard as a crisis or an Essential Issue, even among progressives, is largely determined by male self-interest. The popular progressive issues, the challenges to the regime which get money and press time, are going to be the ones that serve male interests.
Abortion rights are definitely in the interests of men who want easier sexual access to more women.
They don't have to feel any responsibility or take any, knowing that she can always just get an abortion. Thus, the widespread co-ed support for Planned Parenthood. Yes, we are free to consider pornography a menace to women's lives and freedom, a form of violence against women - but we dare not oppose or restrict it in case we might reduce the odds of survival for men. Men's lives are worth more than women's. But we knew that .