![]() ![]() "There is no task more radical, more in keeping with a vision of a free society, than changing sexual relations," writes Willis in her book Beginning to See the Light. Califia describes herself as a "sex radical" and argues that gender and class injustice "are based mostly on sexuality-hatred of the body, the state's interest in controlling our pleasures."Ĭalifia is in the tradition of philosophers Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse, the gay pioneer Harry Hay, the poet Allen Ginsberg, the journalist Ellen Willis, and the novelist Dorothy Allison, who calls Califia's essays "lucid, intelligent, brave, and true." This tradition holds that sexual liberation is indispensable to true freedom, and that the repression of sexual pleasure is one of the oldest of the master's tools. ![]() So writes author Pat Califia in the preface to her book of erotic fiction, Macho Sluts. "The things that seem beautiful, inspiring, and life-affirming to me seem hateful, ugly, and ludicrous to most other people." Profile of a sex radical." Retrieved from MLA style: "Profile of a sex radical." The Free Library. ![]()
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