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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 18. 27th July 1972

Fears About Sex

Fears About Sex

Another major reason that women come to support the anti-abortion cause is that they have misunderstandings and fears about sex. They feel that abortion makes sex for its own sake more acceptable (which it does) and they can't believe that that would be a good thing. These women are also opposed to such things as pornography and the use of the female body to sell products. It's well known that feminists, who support abortion, have a similar position on advertisements and other things which make women into sex objects. Why is there this seeming point of agreement between women who are opposed to each other on the abortion issue?

To begin with, both recognise that sex is often oppressive for women. But the women against abortion see sex itself as oppressive, while feminists see that it is the use, the exploitation of sex that makes it oppressive. Why should sex be oppressive to women? Why do many older women become embittered and angry at the youner generation's struggle for sexual freedom? To find the answer we have to look at the way our human relation-ships are structured in this society and the attitudes which arise from, and uphold these structures.

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