Laurie Penny is a columnist for New Statesman and the author of Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism. Her new book, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution is published by Bloomsbury.
In this wide-ranging interview, she discusses pornography, online abuse and the many different strands of contemporary feminism.
The feminism you articulate in this book seeks to speak for and liberate the marginalised, the ‘other’ in capitalist society. How did you come to this conception of feminism?
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Sue C. 19 March 2015
I don't think 'sex is a social idea' but that the way we have sex is a social idea. Surely pornography is about eroticising sex. Pornography has been 'male dominated' and portrayed through a patriarchal lens and we are waking up to new ways of defining what this is all about. We are beginning to listen to women's voices and to use their views and ideas as well as experiences of sex to have a 'conversation' about these subjects.
Ballason Allie 7 August 2014
women HATE hearing the TRUTH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4zSRkBMPng
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