“Male sexuality is apparently activated by violence against women and expresses itself in violence against women to a significant extent.”

— Catharine A. MacKinnon

Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy" (1989) Ethics, Vol. 99, No. 2 pp. 314-346

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American feminist and legal activist 1946

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