By Sex Possessed

August, 1981

For its January 1981 issue, Inquiry, a San Francisco--based journal of contemporary news and comment, asked Christie Hefner to review "Take Back the Night: Women on Pornography," a collection of feminist essays edited by Laura Lederer. Christie's review turned out to be a thoughtful analysis of the emotionalism and dogma that permeate the antiporn movement, which itself has led to a curious alliance between some women's groups and their own worst enemy, the new moral right. We've publi...

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