A Formerly Fearless Feminist, Erica Jong, Shakes Her Finger At Playboy

October, 1989

How ironic to be accused in the glossy, garter-strewn pages of Playboy of having "trivialized sex"! Thank the Goddess Ihaven't lost my sense of humor!Your series of articles titled Burning Desires: Sex in America (Playboy, April, May, June andJuly) makes some good points but utterly misses others. Your over-allanalysis of sex and feminism is shallow and wrongheaded.Here's how I see it:Yes, feminists, like other humanliberationists, thought that a free person ought to have a free body.T...

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