Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Stephen Adubato on why banning porn will revive love, Elizabeth Kulze on the importance of embodiment, and Susan Pickard on Simone de Beauvoir as “the ultimate sex realist.” Plus: freebirth and its dangers, turning our lives into mindless entertainment, a liberal and conservative talk family policy, a world without mothers—and more!
First, Stephen G. Adubato argues that laws banning porn will actually foster a return to the erotic, to the paradoxes and mystery of love and attraction.
Next, Elizabeth Kulze tells her own story of coming to terms with embodiment and discusses how motherhood provides a unique opportunity to return to one’s body.
Finally, Susan Pickford argues that, contrary to popular belief, Simone de Beauvoir is “the ultimate sex realist,” and would have rejected the gender theory of Judith Butler. (For a different view, see Featured Author Abigail Favale’s Fairer Disputations essay “Radical Feminism Did Lead to Transgenderism—But Not the Way You Think“).
More Great Reads:
- When Freebirth Ends in Death, Kara Kennedy, The Free Press
- We Are The Slop, Freya India, After Babel
- Can the Right and the Left Agree on Care?, Elissa Strauss and Patrick T. Brown, Made for Care
- Do We Really Want a World Without Mothers?, Stella O’Malley, UnHerd
- A Free and Flourishing Society Recognizes Our Dependence: A Q&A with Leah Libresco Sargeant, Alexandra Davis, Public Discourse
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Featured Author Leah Libresco Sargeant’s book, The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto is now out! In coming weeks we will be featuring an exclusive excerpt and a few reflections on this important book, but in the meantime, it’s worth buying your own copy.
