Reply #23: I don't know anything about the woman, but at least one of the quotes from her is great.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

"Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls." is an accurate, important and very widely-contradicted point.


On the other hand "'In this mechanized technological world of steel and glass, the fires of sex have to be stoked. Pornography is a pagan arena of beauty, vitality, and brutality, of the archaic vigor of nature. It should break every rule, offend all morality" is a silly statement, I think - it gives far more credit to pornography than it deserves - but I think she's quite right that the people campaigning to ban it on the grounds that it degrades women are totally idiotic, and the tone of the remark makes me suspect it's at least partly self-mocking.

I think she's absolutely right to dismiss campaigning to ban pornography because it degrades women as "totally idiotic", but if this is a sample of her reasoning then I think it's suspect.