Any of us who’ve had to deal over the years with the law relating to pornography necessarily has had to deal with the writings of Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin. Now that Dworkin has just died , it’s as good a time as any to reflect on her work and how it helped or hurt our culture’s dialog about sex, about sexism and feminism, and about the relationships between men and women generally. Me, I think Dworkin mostly did harm, but my friend Susie Bright takes a more generous view.

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