Greer is one of the godmothers of second-wave feminism. In her book “The Female Eunuch,” she argued that motherhood represses women sexually and that they need to ditch monogamy and celibacy, embracing their full sensual selves.
“I want to turn the discourse about rape upside down,” she said, according to the Guardian. “We are not getting anywhere approaching it down the tunnel of history.”
In the speech, she argued that a lot of heterosexual sex is nonconsensual. Most of what we describe as rape is much more mundane, she said, more like “bad sex . . .