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Sex and Bondage 101

Candace de Russy on the new academic frontier

THE SEX MOVEMENT in academia is in part a product of the latest transmutation of feminism, known as "sex-positive feminism." One of its leaders, Lisa Palac, a self-described "cyber-sex queen," is the author of The Edge of the Bed: How Dirty Pictures Changed My Life, and the producer of sexually explicit documentaries with titles such as Cyborgasm 1 and 2, and Didn't Do It For Love. Palac dubs her feminist precursors from the 1970s as "duh" feminists (meaning they demanded the most obvious sorts of things, such as equal pay for equal work). If Palac and her sister "pleasure activists" have their way, equal-opportunity feminists and anti-porn feminists, such as Andrea Dworkin, will soon be as antiquated as the corsets of yesteryear.

Or maybe not. For Dworkin and her allies oppose heterosexual sex, while "sex-positive" feminists are the most extreme manifestations of the new "discipline" of "queer theory" curriculum that focuses on homosexual identity.

In practice, that means a porn queen who enrolled in an art class at the University of Southern California (USC) received credit--and accolades--from the university for her hard-core "performance art": Annabel Chong...

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