Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights - Softcover

"Strong medicine for all those who would censor sexual expression in cyberspace." -- Jerry Berman,Executive Director, Center for Democracy and Technology "Defending Pornography is valuable precisely because of its lucid, broad exploration of the long debate over pornography." * The Washington Post Book World * "Antiporn feminists have been cruising for a forensic bruising since the early eighties. Defending Pornography lands quite a blow." * Entertainment Weekly * "Proves without a doubt that free expression is an essential foundation for women's liberty, equality, and sexuality." -- Betty Friedan "A passionately argued, cogently written, lively discourse on the increasingly peculiar politics of sex." * New York Times Book Review *

Reissued with a new foreword and introduction by the author Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography.