Is James Deen the Title IX of Porn?

Why at this late date are we still reinforcing the idea that women are modest and fragile and in need of gender-specific accommodations? Lowder seems to suggest that the arrival of James Deen’s mild-enough flavor of porn is some sort of victory for women. As I see it, the only thing necessarily lady-friendly about soft-core scenes is that they come with less stigma than the real stuff. Watching this vanilla variety of porn might feel, for some, like less of a betrayal of one’s feminist values — because the sex depicted is a little gentler, not quite as rapey as what you might expect of, say, a typical S&M; scene — but there is nothing at all feminist, or psychologically healthy, about limiting the expression of a woman’s sexuality.

— “Calling Deen’s films ‘porn for ladies’ seems to imply that all other mainstream porn, with its various kinks and categories, is somehow not for women.”