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Peter Stringfellow’s version of ‘choice’ feminism is a gross perversion of feminist theory
Peter Stringfellow at the Bacardi London Club and Bar Awards at the London Hilton Hotel in 2001
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LIKE his seedy contemporary Hugh Hefner, the late Peter Stringfellow apparently considered himself a feminist.
His reasoning was that he supported “choices made by women,” including those who danced in his clubs.
As a feminist who has campaigned against the sex industry for some years, I find the facile championing of choice a gross bastardisation of feminist theory.
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