Feminist Pornography What Makes Pornography Feminist?

By Cory Silverberg, About.com Guide

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The definitive history of feminist pornography has yet to be written. Even when it is (and I'm counting the days) hopefully it won't attempt to create a monolithic single definition of what feminist pornography is. From a sexual health perspective it's much more interesting to look at what porn that has been identified as feminist adds to our understanding of sexual expression than to argue about what does or does not qualify as feminist porn.

It’s important to distinguish the relatively new idea or production of explicitly feminist pornography from the slightly older, and much more thoroughly documented discourse of feminist responses to pornography. Feminists making pornography and calling it feminist is a very different topic than feminists talking about pornography other people have made.