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Tactics of censorship, violent retaliation and rhetorical hatred will not accomplish those ends, nor will they succeed in furthering the goals espoused by Take Back the Night. Rather, Dines-Levi and others risk alienating those women who have fought to liberate their own sexualities as a means of fighting that very same oppression...
Sexual freedom--the right of women to control their own bodies and create the terms in which their sexuality can be expressed--is basic to the issue of personal freedom in which the Women's Movement is grounded. To assert, as Dines-Levi did, that women are defined solely by their mass-produced and mass-marketed images is to suggest wrongly that women cannot make choices about their own bodies...
ELLEN Willis, in an article entitled "Feminism, Moralism and Pornography," offers an important discussion of the issues raised by Dines-Levi. Her refutation of WAP's platform is based on the recognition that these arguments set back the discussion about violence against women rather than further needed social change...
What is disturbing about Dines-Levi's appearance for Take Back the Night and the attendant discussion she prompted is the refusal to consider the social and political implications of advocating pornography's censorship. Inevitably, comparisons must be drawn about the similar tactics advocated by the censors of the Left and the censors of the Right...
...Dines-Levi's true intention was not to align herself--and an entire movement of women--with the repression of sexuality and Bible-toting book burners, then her analysis of the causes of violence against women would lead to a very different tactical answer...