French author claims feminists want 'contract before sex'


  • World
  • Sunday, 14 Jan 2018

This file photo taken on June 11, 2014 shows French writer and jury member for the French literary prize Prix Sade, Catherine Millet posing in Paris. (AFP/Jo

One of the French writers behind the attack on the #MeToo movement launched a blistering new broadside Friday, claiming that some feminists will not be content until "you have to sign a contract with a lawyer before you can have sex."

Catherine Millet, author of the bestselling memoir, "The Sexual Life of Catherine M.", claimed the campaign to counter sexual harassment was casting women as "victims and the fragile prey" of men.

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