Posing for Playboy

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This paper discusses how there is much division among women and feminists alike concerning the issue of pornography. It contends that if one believes in the freedom of women, then one would have to agree, if only in principle, that posing for "Playboy" or participating in the adult cinema genre, is as feminist as burning a bra. It concludes that it is feminist to pose for "Playboy" and how guidance should be given to young females regarding their sexuality.

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"In the 1990 anthology "Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism," editor Dorchen Leidholdt claims that feminists who believe women make their own choices about pornography are spreading "a felicitous lie," and Shelia Jeffreys argues in the same work that "pro-sex" feminists are "eroticizing dominance and subordination" (McElroy pp). Wendy Stock accuses free speech feminists of identifying with their oppressors, "like concentration camp prisoners with their jailers," and Andrea Dworkin accuses them of running a "sex protection racket" and maintains that no one who defends pornography can be a feminist (McElroy pp)."

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