Time Flies Now That Clitoral Orgasms Are Legal
From the new Ron Howard documentary on the movie Deep Throat:
...Deep Throat was the first time the very idea of a woman's sexual
fulfillment was an issue onscreen. That wasn't a minor matter, for either
film's adherents or detractors. Bailey and Barbato feature a quote from the New
York City prosecutor who successfully sued to close the theater in which Deep
Throat was playing: "The movie says it's perfectly normal to have a
clitoral orgasm and THAT IS WRONG."Link: Via Slate Magazine
When people ask what "all them damn feminists" are going on about, the answer is *that's* what they were going on about.
Yes, Caitlin Hall is right that porn doesn't really objectify women (at least not the same way), but neither is Naomi Wolfe completely wrong to remember it sure as hell used to. In the end the big differences between Hall and Wolfe probably have more to do with age, time, and memory than anything else.
See also: About Objectification in Porn
