A Porn of Her Own
Anti-porn feminism takes away power from the women who make porn and want control of their work.
“Like” Feminism
The problem with Sheryl Sandberg’s “feminism.”
Socialize Backpage
Who wants to be neighbors with sex workers? For a time anyway in New York, the American Communist Party did, or had to, share a building with a brothel. Gay Talese has a marvelous little bit about this in his classic participant-journo account of the American sexual revolution, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, that also gives some [...]
Happy Hookers
Sex workers and their would-be saviors. The following books were not published in 1972: The Happy Secretary, The Happy Nurse, The Happy Napalm Manufacturer, The Happy President, The Happy Yippie, The Happy Feminist. The memoir of a Manhattan madam was. The Happy Hooker climbed best-seller lists that year, selling over sixteen million copies. When it [...]
Melissa Gira Grant
Melissa Gira Grant, a Jacobin contributing editor, has written for Jezebel, Slate, and the Guardian.