Now Hear This

November, 1991

In room 637 at the New York Hilton, ten or so prostitutes and porn-flick glitterati (Veronica Vera, Annie Sprinkle and Nina Hartley, among them) caucused with several women who write about sex to frame a draft resolution on pornography. This was Friday, July fifth, 1991. That morning, NOW--otherwise known as the Sisterhood of Enforced Political Correctness--had convened its national conference. This year's convention found hundreds of card-carrying feminists descending on Manhattan to hammer out...