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

reissued with a new foreword and introduction by the author

"A passionately argued, cogently written, lively discourse on the increasingly peculiarpolitics of sex."
--New York Times Book Review

"Defending Pornography is valuable precisely because of its lucid,broad exploration of the long debate over pornography."
--The Washington Post Book World

"A triumphant (and sensual) view of women that stands in stark contrast to thebleak vision of powerlessness and paternalism offered her critics."
--The Wall Street Journal

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.