Christine Emba wrote a book in 2022 titled "Rethinking Sex." The Times columnist Michelle Goldberg discussed the book in a column, describing it as "bold and compelling" and making note that Emba's sources ranged from Ellen Willis to Thomas Aquinas. Sold! As I read the book, I was struck by the way Emba explores the gap between sexual ethics and sexual liberation. The conversations she starts have a way of sticking with you. Now, in her first essay for Times Opinion as a contributing writer, Emba is starting another of these, asking: Why, if pornography is so clearly bad for women and society, is it so hard to find its critics? "As a society, we are allowing our desires to continue to be molded in experimental ways, for profit, by an industry that does not have our best interests at heart," she writes. "We want to prove that we're chill and modern, skip the inevitable haggling over boundaries and regulation and avoid potentially placing limits on our behavior. But we aren't paying attention to how we're making things worse for ourselves." Here's what we're focusing on today:
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