American Right Embraces Pornography to Subordinate Women, Recasting Reagan-Era Sexual Politics
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Updated · The Guardian · Sep 24
American Right Embraces Pornography to Subordinate Women, Recasting Reagan-Era Sexual Politics
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 24
Summary
The latest shift is stylistic rather than legislative: the American right is portrayed as swapping Christian-right sexual restraint for open raunch, pornography and male sexual entitlement while keeping policies that restrict women’s sexual freedom.
Examples cited range from FBI hiring standards under Kash Patel to MAGA media promoting wives’ on-demand sex, a nude Sydney Sweeney gambling ad celebrated on the right, and the Tate brothers’ reported ties to Trump-world figures.
Donald Trump’s rise is framed as the turning point, with the old Republican emphasis on decency and prohibition giving way to “locker room” vulgarity, even as abortion bans, opposition to gay rights and skepticism toward birth control persist.
The column argues both the old prohibitionist right and the new pornified right pursue the same end: using sex—through shame or domination—to subordinate women.