A Woman's Right to Pornography, and it constitutes a more extreme defense of pornography than most feminists are comfortable with. I arrive at this position after years of interviewing hundreds of sex workers. Overview of Feminist Positions on Pornography Feminist positions on pornography currently break down into three rough categories. The liberal position combines a respect for free speech with the principle 'a woman's body, a woman's right' to produce a defense of pornography along the lines of, 'I don't approve of it, but everyone has the right to consume or produce words and images'. A true defense of pornography arises from feminists who have been labeled 'pro-sex', and who argue that porn has benefits for women.
Little dialogue occurs between the three positions.
In the same work, Sheila Jeffreys argues that 'pro-sex' feminists are 'eroticizing dominance and subordination'. The liberal feminists who are personally uncomfortable with pornography tend to be intimidated into silence. In her book Only Words, MacKinnon denies that pornography consists of words and images, both which would be protected by the First Amendment. The answer lies in radical feminist ideology, which Christina Hoff Sommers calls 'gender feminism'. Gender feminism looks at history and sees an uninterrupted oppression of women by men than spans cultural barriers.