Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Emily Baumgaertner Nunn on the trafficked girls of LA’s Figueroa Street, Leah Libresco Sargeant and Ann Furedi debate abortion, and Rachel Lu on why the great feminization fails as a theory of everything. Plus: the other gender wars, the new battle of the sexes, female culture is being pornified, a new book on pornocracy—and more!
First, Emily Baumgaertner Nunn tells the story of a young woman who found herself pushed into prostitution as a girl—and highlights the massive growth the underage sex trade has undergone in LA in recent years.
Next, Leah Libresco Sargeant and Ann Furedi debate the question “is access to legal abortion essential to women’s flourishing?” on Featured Author Louise Perry’s podcast, Maiden Mother Matriarch.
Finally, Featured Author Rachel Lu argues that “the great feminization” theory offered by Helen Andrews particularly fails insofar as it attempts to be a master narrative of society’s decline. (Note: this piece is paywalled, but worth it.)
More Great Reads:
- The Other Gender Wars, Sebastian Milbank, The Critic
- The Era of AI Porn Is Here, Samuel D. James, First Things
- Female Culture is Being Pornified, Samuel D. James, Digital Liturgies
- Beware the New Battle of the Sexes, Ivana Greco, The Dispatch
Fairer Disputations Recommends:
This week, Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel’s book Pornocracy came out. It “tells the story of how pornography fundamentally changed—perhaps forever—what it is to be human.”
For a small taste of what awaits in the book, check out their excellent piece in Compact: “Death of Sex, Murder of Love.” Jo Bartosch has also written for Fairer Disputations: “Protect the Dolls”: The Porn to Trans Pipeline.
There are also some excellent reviews already out:
- Porn is Degrading Society, Helen Joyce, The Critic
- The Case Against Porn, Victoria Smith, The Critic
