Sexual Impolitics: Heresies on sex, gender and feminism

Dissident writings on sex, gender and feminism from 1990-2010 includes, for the first time, the full unexpurgated, uncensored text of Neil Lyndon's revolutionary 1992 book No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism.



No More Sex War was the world’s first radical critique of feminism from an egalitarian, progressive, non-sexist point of view. It forensically takes apart that secular faith in its own terms, showing it to be informed by totalitarian dogma originally drawn from Marx and Engels. The book unearths the contradictions within the ideology of feminism, exposes its myths and falsehoods and reveals it to embody a reactionary intolerance – one which has restrained and inhibited change and equality between the sexes, rather than promoting a joyful liberation, as the sisters like to boast.



The twin intellectual achievements of the book are, with evidence, to demolish the notion that we live in a patriarchal society (the presiding presumption of all forms of feminism); and to show that change for women has taken place over the last 200 years primarily as a result of advances in contraceptive and abortion technologies. Mass-produced condoms, Dutch caps and contraceptive pills were the sine qua non of female emancipation, Lyndon argues, rather than the Pankhursts. Men as a whole, he demonstrates at length, did not opposed those advances. On the contrary, egalitarian progress for women was frequently been initiated, encouraged and promoted by men.



Feminism, then, amounts to little more than a poisonous ideological parasite on social changes that had been and are generally welcomed. It follows that the sex war which feminists declared and promoted was a pernicious misprision - “like something nasty on the pavement that had got stuck as human beings paced along and was now difficult to scrape off”, as Lyndon wrote. Everybody may unquestioningly believe in feminism, he said, but everybody might be wrong. "I was, categorically, in a minority of one but, as Ghandi said: 'Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth”.'



No More Sex War was also the first to identify disadvantages and inequalities for men in the West. Feminism had arrogated and monopolised all discussion of gender so exclusively, Lyndon argued, that we simply took no notice of the absence of legal rights for unmarried fathers. We didn’t care about the systemic disadvantages of men in family law. We overlooked the inequalities of boys in education and young men in employment; and we neglected illnesses which are specific to men, such as prostate cancer. He was the first journalist to trawl through the mortality statistics and find that prostate cancer kills more men than all genito-urinary disorders for women put together.





“No More Sex War remains one of the most important and courageous books of our time, accurately locating the minefields on the path to genuine male-female equality and love. With hindsight, the story in Sexual Impolitics of Neil Lyndon’s excommunication when he revealed that the world of feminism was flat is as revealing as the Catholic church’s response to Galileo.”

Warren Farrell, Ph.D.

Author, The Myth of Male Power and Why Men Are the Way they Are





"In time, Neil Lyndon will be seen as the Christabel Pankhurst of the men's movement."



David Thomas



Author, Not Guilty: In Defence of the Modern Man





"Neil Lyndon - an authentic hero"



A Voice for Men







Neil Lyndon was one of the first men to dare to put forward the radical idea that men and boys, as a gender, experience sexism, discrimination and inequality. This simple idea is still as radical today as it was over 20 years ago when he first published his seminal work on men women, No More Sex War. Lyndon is not a ranting, irrational misogynist; he is a rigorous and intellectual commentator whose writings provide a vital, counter-cultural viewpoint from the frontline of gender politics."







Glen Poole, author of Equality For Men and