[7] In 2010, Kira Cochrane, writing for The Guardian, called Banyard "the UK's most influential young feminist".

[2] While at university in Sheffield, in 2004 Banyard set up FEM Conferences, a conference designed to bring together a range of campaign groups and activists working on gender equality to build communications, as well as educate people about gender discrimination.

Observer published a critical review, arguing that while its subject matter is important, the book is poorly written and infantilises women.

Pimp State posits that prostitution is at risk of becoming normalised, and critiques the idea that sexual equality and the sex industry can coexist.

The book was reviewed positively by Helen Lewis in New Statesman and Sarah Ditum in Guardian.