Liberation
In an article about the documentary "Inside Deep Throat" one reads:
"After “Deep Throat” opened in Times Square, attention from media critics and outraged conservatives turned it into a must-see movie. Arriving amid the women’s liberation movement, “Deep Throat” was also heralded as a celebration of female sexual fulfillment.
“It was the first time respectable middle-class women went to porn theaters,” social critic Camille Paglia says in an interview in “Inside Deep Throat.” Other cultural commentators appearing in the documentary include Norman Mailer, Ruth Westheimer, Gore Vidal, Erica Jong and Hugh Hefner."
Exactly who "heralded 'Deep Throat' as a "celebration of female sexual fulfillment"? Maybe Camille Paglia, but no one that I would consider a feminist. One doesn't have to favor censorship or chastity to dislike pornography, and any women viewing "Deep Throat" could predict what impact it would have on male sexual partners, and the requests they might be emboldened to make.
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