> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Anthony Kennerson
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:01 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Towards a More Sex-Positive -- And More Relevant -- Left
>
<<SNIP>>
> As for Carole's notion that the "anti-sex left" is only a
> figment of some outsider's imagination: I invite you to
> check out a recent article that appeared in Counterpunch by
> Professor Robert Jensen called "Rape is Normal"
> (http://www.counterpunch.org/jensen0904.html); it clearly
> states his complete absorption of the Dworkin-MacKinnon
> theory of male sexual rapicity/female passivity in order to
> sell his analysis of pornography and prostitution as a grave
> threat to women and a tool of "capitalist patriarchy".
<<SNIP>>
I really urge people to go and read the Jensen article to appreciate what a major distortion of the work is contained in the above paragraph by Kennerson.
-Chip Berlet