A new edition of a groundbreaking, feminist defense of pornography as free speech. “Defending Pornography” examines a key question that has divided feminists for decades: is censoring pornography good or bad for women? Nadine Strossen makes a powerful case that increasing government power to censor sexual expression, beyond the limits that the First Amendment sensibly permits (for example, outlawing child pornography) would do more harm than...

A SCREEN LEGEND'S RAW ACCOUNT OF NEW BEGINNINGS AFTER LEAVING THE PORN INDUSTRY, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE FEMINIST ICON GLORIA STEINEM. Portrayed by today's biggest movie stars, Linda Lovelace was just twenty-three when she became the queen of porn in the blockbuster movie Deep Throat. Her bestselling memoir Ordeal laid bare the nightmare of terror, rape and perversity she suffered during the making of the film. Now she tells the harrowing and...

"Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle--underground actress, porn star, producer of adult movies, and staunch feminist--she made a business of pleasure. She helped crystalize the broader hedonistic turn in American life in the second half of the twentieth century: a period when the rules of sex were rewritten; when the white-hot "sex wars" cleaved feminism...