Andrea Dworkin, Ed. by Joanna Fateman and Amy Scholder
RaveThe CutReading Last Days at Hot Slit ... I girded myself for an intellectual assault. My appreciative reaction surprised me ... I also discovered that the way she shared intimate, sometimes shocking details of her sexual and romantic life...came off as brave and poignant ... Dworkin’s conclusions about porn and sex still felt narrow and joyless. Yet I wasn’t alarmed so much as emotionally kickstarted by her urgency ... It galvanizes me to dispense with likeability and embrace indignation ... Next to the vacant, rah-rah version of sex positivity I grew up with in the ’90s, Dworkin’s rage seems downright clear-eyed ... A foe of nuance, Dworkin nevertheless invites us to complicate our unbridled enthusiasm for sex. Last Days at Hot Slit is a mirror for what I’ve been afraid of for years: being defiant, being ugly, being unloved by men, even being unloved by other feminists like Andrea Dworkin.
