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To be sure, pornographers, unlike umpires, were never formally invested with the authority to tell the truth about sex. No one elected or appointed the pornographers. If porn is indeed the voice of the “ruling power,” it is not officially so. Whatever authority porn has is granted by those who watc…

I am not saying that feminism has no business asking better of men—indeed, asking them to be better men. But a feminism worth having must find ways of doing so that avoid rote reenactment of the old form of crime and punishment, with its fleeting satisfactions and predictable costs. I am saying tha…

But by presenting what happened at UMass as a case of “ordinary” sex—sex that is merely “ambivalent, undesirable, unpleasant, unsober, or regretted”74—the critics of Title IX make things too easy for themselves. The woman who gave Bonsu a handjob didn’t really want to—or, she wanted to at first, an…

But by presenting what happened at UMass as a case of “ordinary” sex—sex that is merely “ambivalent, undesirable, unpleasant, unsober, or regretted”74—the critics of Title IX make things too easy for themselves. The woman who gave Bonsu a handjob didn’t really want to—or, she wanted to at first, an…

Defenders of “men’s rights” like to say that “Believe women” violates the presumption of innocence. But this is a category error. The presumption of innocence is a legal principle: it answers to our sense that it is worse, all else being equal, for the law to wrongly punish than to wrongly exonerat…