Towards a More Sex-Positive...Left

[K]

haven't paid attn to this aspect of the thread and whether or not the crits 
of dworkin were legit, but here's mina's post and the link:


>Actually a few months ago, don't remember when, I and a few others had an 
>idea of Andrea Dworkin along these lines.  A young woman who knew better 
>found an excellent refutation in a Dworking interview of that "old canard" 
>as she put it.

From: "Mina Kumar" <wejazzjune at hotmail.com>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: Re: Sexual Harassment
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 00:01:13 -0400
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>From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Sexual Harassment
>Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:32:34 -0700
>
>http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeserb/comments/2001/e-a08052001.html
>One of the more absurd theories is a thesis of radical American feminist
>Andrea Dworkin that sex between a man and a woman is always rapist in
>nature, because woman is always in a subjugated position in the society -
>economically, politically, physically.

This is an endlessly recycled canard.

http://www.igc.apc.org/Womensnet/dworkin/LieDetector.html