MacKinnon and Dworkin might not have thought of themselves as sex negative, but their work certainly did not focus on the liberatory possibilities of orgasm. With titles like Sexual Harassment of Working Women and Woman Hating, their books focused less on the pleasure of sex and more on the ways that sexuality could be used to harm. The very basic argument was that unequal power dynamics are the backdrop to heterosexual sex, always, so true consent is almost impossible to achieve.
