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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

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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