Carolyn Moynihan at Mercatornet previews of a feminist’s new book.
A British feminist is sounding the alarm about the effects on teenagers of easy access to pornography, saying that a skewed view of sex is becoming the norm in society and the idea of intimacy is dying.
Natasha Walter tackles this subject in a book, Living Dolls, due to be published early in February, which looks at the resurgence of sexism in contemporary culture.
Could a feminist be regretting the sexual revolution? Not a chance. Walter only regrets that the women who tried to emulate the wanton behavior of bad boys during the last few decades haven’t achieved ‘equality’. She thinks children’s ‘voyeuristic’ view of sex is bad for women because:
“This means that men are still encouraged, through most pornographic materials, to see women as objects, and women are still encouraged much of the time to concentrate on their sexual allure rather than their imagination or pleasure. No wonder we have seen the rise of the idea that erotic experience will necessarily involve, for women, a performance in which they will be judged visually.”
Moynihan takes issue with Walter’s new twist on the old feminist whine: