ABSTRACT

As a feminist and a psychologist specializing in research and clinical work on sexuality, I have concluded that women are in more danger from the repression of sexually explicit materials than from their free expression. If the vast range of items considered pornographic have anything in common, it is that they can be described as "sexually transgressive material." But because women's sexuality has been repressed, suppressed, and oppressed, what's needed is more transgressive opportunity, not less.