Refusing to represent women’s sexual pleasure onscreen renders us obscene

In 2013, actress Evan Rachel Wood took to Twitter. She was angry and she had every reason to be. She had just seen a cut of her film Charlie Countryman and had discovered it had been edited in a very particular way. In order to avoid the dreaded NC-17 rating which prevents anyone under 18 from seeing a film and can be a box-office death sentence, a scene of a woman receiving oral sex was...