Editing Naomi Wolf (section)

==Feminist issues==
===Abortion===

In an October 1995 ''[[The New Republic|New Republic]]'' article, Wolf was critical of contemporary pro–choice positions, arguing that the movement had "developed a lexicon of dehumanization", and urged feminists to accept abortion as a form of homicide and defend the procedure within the ambiguity of this moral conundrum. She continued, "Abortion should be legal; it is sometimes even necessary. Sometimes the mother must be able to decide that the fetus, in its full humanity, must die."<ref name="TNR1995">{{cite magazine |last=Wolf |first=Naomi |date=October 16, 1995 |title=Our Bodies, Our Souls |magazine=The New Republic |pages=26–35 |volume=213 |issue=16}} reprinted here [http://www.priestsforlife.org/prochoice/ourbodiesoursouls.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507005445/http://www.priestsforlife.org/prochoice/ourbodiesoursouls.htm|date=May 7, 2008}}.</ref>

Wolf concluded by speculating that in a world of "real gender equality", passionate feminists "might well hold candlelight vigils at abortion clinics, standing shoulder to shoulder with the doctors who work there, commemorating and saying goodbye to the dead."<ref name="TNR1995"/> In a 2005 article for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine on the subtle manipulation of [[George W. Bush]]'s image among women, Wolf wrote: "Abortion is an issue not of ''Ms.'' Magazine-style fanaticism or suicidal Republican religious reaction, but a complex issue."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Wolf |first=Naomi |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/columns/thesexes/9911/ |title=Female Trouble |date=May 21, 2005 |journal=New York |access-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804100336/https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/columns/thesexes/9911/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Pornography===
In a 2003 ''New York'' magazine article, Wolf suggested that the ubiquity of internet pornography tends to enervate men's sexual attraction to real women. She wrote, "The onslaught of porn is responsible for deadening male libido in relation to real women, and leading men to see fewer and fewer women as 'porn-worthy.' Far from having to fend off porn-crazed young men, young women are worrying that as mere flesh and blood, they can scarcely get, let alone hold, their attention." Wolf advocated abstaining from porn not on moral grounds but because "greater supply of the stimulant equals diminished capacity."<ref name="nymag.com">{{cite news|last=Wolf|first=Naomi|title=The Porn Myth|url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/trends/n_9437/|work=New York|date=October 9, 2003|access-date=November 17, 2019|archive-date=November 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191124053828/http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/trends/n_9437/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Women in Islamic countries===
Wolf has commented about the dress required of women living in Muslim countries. In 2008, she wrote in ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'', "The West interprets veiling as repression of women and suppression of their sexuality. But when I traveled in Muslim countries and was invited to join a discussion in women–only settings within Muslim homes, I learned that Muslim attitudes toward women's appearance and sexuality are not rooted in repression, but in a strong sense of public versus private, of what is due to God and what is due to one's husband. It is not that Islam suppresses sexuality, but that it embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channeling—toward marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures a home."<ref>{{cite news |last=Wolf |first=Naomi |date=August 30, 2008 |title=Behind the veil lives a thriving Muslim sexuality |work=Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/behind-the-veil-lives-a-thriving-muslim-sexuality/2008/08/29/1219516734637.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 |access-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-date=May 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160521000426/http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/behind-the-veil-lives-a-thriving-muslim-sexuality/2008/08/29/1219516734637.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 |url-status=live }}</ref>