Questions about sex with socialist answers: The right to sex: feminism in the twenty-first century, by Amia Srinivasan, London, Bloomsbury, 2021, xi 276 pp., £18.00 (HB), ISBN 9781526612533.

Lewis, James H. P.

Regarding porn, and what to do about its harmful impact on our collective sexual imagination, the official conclusion of Srinivasan's discussion is pessimistic: "How such a negative education is to be achieved is unclear. Amidst the lively and often highly positive reception of this best-selling collection of six essays in feminist philosophy, some critics have complained that it does not seem to argue for very much.[1] They appeal to Srinivasan's questioning rhetorical style, and her own declaration that her goal is not always to be decisive, but to be ambivalent on some matters so as to do justice to their complexity (p. xiv). Srinivasan argues, against a perceived sex-positive orthodoxy, that the radical critique of porn is fundamentally right on several points.

BLOOMSBURY (London, England); FEMINISM; TWENTY-first century; PORNOGRAPHY; BLACK Lives Matter movement; SOCIALISM; CRIMES against women

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