By Sheila Jeffreys
A critique of the lesbian intercourse industry's efforts to learn from women's oppression.
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Bad Attitude (1985). p. 19. Winter. THE LESBIAN SEXUAL REVOLUTION 29 complain that the dildos they have been sold are too large. 25 An avalanche of sex advice literature this century has aimed to suit reluctant or inadequate women to being efficient holes for the penis with varying therapies suggested from lubricants to counselling and surgery. As lesbian feminists we had to counter the sexological lies that lesbians really wanted to be men and could not do anything with each other without an imitation penis.
London: Sheba. p. 163. 28 LESBIAN HERESY when producing erotica. They are not constructing a new sexuality but putting new trimmings on the old. The new American erotica magazines do not have such scruples. They do not seem anxious to portray lesbians as grey haired, fat, or poor. The most established is called On Our Backs. The title establishes the intention to subvert feminism. The most longstanding feminist newspaper in the US is called Off Our Backs. Such magazines have a very definite politics which is aimed at the depoliticising of lesbianism.
To see sexual practice as political it is necessary to question the liberal notion of privacy. Feminists and lesbian and gay activists have been prepared to use the notion of privacy strategically to advance their aims because it is a notion understood by the liberal state. 6 But this idea is very problematic for feminists. The American feminist theorist Catharine MacKinnon explains very well the problems that the notion of privacy in law creates for women as it ‘reaffirms and reinforces what the feminist critique of sexuality criticizes: the public/ 5.