Violation is a synonym for intercourse.
One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.
Can women make use of men’s vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?
Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women’s bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.
You think intercourse is a private act; it’s not, it’s a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he’s jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she’s willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she’s prepared to be.
To be rapeable, a position that is social, not biological, defines what a woman is.
Only when manhood is dead – and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it – only then will we know what it is to be free.
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women.
The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest – he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.
Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.
The annihilation of a woman’s personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality.
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.