Beatrice Faust manages to write so persuasively, that even when you have your reservations with some details, she manages to sway you. All her years of dedication to feminist and civil liberties campaigns, to the craft of good polemical writing, and to extensive research have resulted in a powerful work that has every chance of making its mark felt in England and America as well as in Australia. The book is helped along considerably by photographs of Hindu erotic art, some notable Beardsleys and genitalia from varying cultures.

Women Sex and Pornography is not too broad a title because the book does in fact tackle gender, sexuality and pornography from a fully frontal position. It articulates much that women feel and hitherto have expressed tentatively amongst friends. Some of it makes you want to shout Hoorah!