What Do Women Want? (32 page)

Jack Kahane. His son took Girodias, his mother’s name, to outwit the Nazis.

Thanks to this protest, among others, the movie had a theatrical release in New York City, Los Angeles, and nationally in September 1998.

Margaret Mead, “Sex and Censorship in Contemporary Society,” in
New World Writing
(New York: New American Library of World Literature, 1953).

See
Only Words
(Harvard University Press, 1993).

See
Letters from a War Zone,
1993, or any of Dworkin’s other books.

See
Henry Miller on Writing
(New Directions, 1964).

I once asked Anaïs Nin why she had expurgated the sexual scenes in her diaries, and she replied: “Because I was aware that any woman who wrote frankly about her sex life was never again taken seriously by literary critics.” “But, Miss Nin,” I protested, “that is exactly why we must do it.” This exchange took place at the 92nd Street Y in 1971 or 1972. Nin remains correct. Women who write about sex are still denigrated.