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 workers. Feminist Positions Feminist positions on pornography currently break down into three rough categories.
Little dialogue occurs between the three positions.
Anti-pornography feminists treat women who disagree as either brainwashed dupes of patriarchy or as apologists for pornographers. The liberal feminists who are personally uncomfortable with pornography tend to be intimidated into silence. For example, Catharine MacKinnon has repeatedly refused to share a stage with Strossen or any woman who defends porn. In her book Only Words , MacKinnon denies that pornography consists of words and images, both of which would be protected by the First Amendment. Gender feminism looks at history and sees an uninterrupted oppression of women by men that spans cultural barriers.