Anglican Mainstream

By Julian Mann

This first appeared on the US-based orthodox Anglican news service, VirtueOnline:

In 1971, the feminist campaigner Rosie Boycott co-founded Spare Rib, the first magazine in Britain devoted to women's liberation. Its name was a deliberate play on the account in Genesis 2 of Eve’s creation from the rib that the Lord God took out of Adam’s side. The message was clear: Christian Britain demeaned women.

This week Ms Boycott, who edited two national newspapers in the 1990s here in the UK, wrote a hard-hitting article in the Daily Mail denouncing the sexual revolution. In her how words, she had a 'ringside seat' at the start of it as a 17-year-old in 1968:

As a feminist, people are often surprised when I say that casual sex can be damaging, but as the years have gone by, I know that life is much more fulfilling when it is shared with someone, with respect and trust at its heart. Besides, as I have said, promiscuity certainly isn't what feminism set out to achieve.

Her conclusion is startling:

Now, nearly 40 years on, it would seem that although so much has changed, attitudes to sex are subjugating women every bit as much as the old-fashioned misogyny of the past.

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