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Honestly: Sex, Porn, Feminism: A Debate!
Demonstrators protest the Miss America beauty pageant,1968. (Bev Grant via Getty Images)
By Bari Weiss
08.03.22 — Culture and Ideas
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It’s hard to think of an invention that has been more transformative to women than the birth control pill. Suddenly, American women possessed a power that women never before in history had: They could control when they got pregnant. They could have sex like . . . men. 

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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