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Lovelace: a feminism-free ‘feminist’ critique of the pornography industry

Naomi Wolf: The biopic of 70s porn star Linda Boreman edits out a crucial aspect of her life: her empowering role in the women's movement

Diane Abbott to launch attack on hypersexualised culture

Labour shadow public health minister will discuss sexualisation of childhood in speech to the Fabian Society women's network

Making porn actors wear condoms is not the best way to protect us

Stoya: Measure B, a law requiring the use of condoms in adult movies in LA County, fixes a problem that doesn't exist. Our sex is safe

LA County’s Measure B is a major win for safe sex in adult entertainment

Gail Dines: The failure to block the pro-condom ballot, for all their political leverage and wealthy donors, is a knock for Big Porn's exploiters

Kat Banyard: ‘We were sold a lie on an almighty scale, that equality had been won, the battle was over’

Britain's leading young feminist talks about the global exploitation of pornography, women's right to an abortion, and the mass lobby of parliament she is leading

Porn, syphilis and the politics of the money shot

Gail Dines: I regularly saw a mix of saliva, semen, faeces and vomit on porn sets. A call for condom use highlights the plight of performers

The sex industry is repulsive, but it cannot be wished away

Tanya Gold: Brooke Magnanti looks at porn and prostitution with the eyes of an advocate. Yet she still has some truths to tell

Los Angeles to porn industry: wear a condom

LA city councilors approved an ordinance that makes the use of condoms in porn mandatory, but the industry claims it is unnecessary and will cost them jobs

Is the Muff March such a cunning stunt?

Naomi McAuliffe: By focusing on porn, British activism against designer vaginas gets the headlines but obscures the real issues

Our Muff March is a stand against pornified culture

Rosie Mockett: Female genital mutilation is despised in the west. Yet women are encouraged to go under the knife in search of a designer vagina

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