Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7
Context: But the hatred of women is a source of sexual pleasure for men in its own right. Intercourse appears to be the expression of that contempt in pure form, in the form of a sexed hierarchy; it requires no passion or heart because it is power without invention articulating the arrogance of those who do the fucking. Intercourse is the pure, sterile, formal expression of men's contempt for women; but that contempt can turn gothic and express itself in many sexual and sadistic practices that eschew intercourse per se. Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.
This it does with some consistency and some confidence. Violation is a synonym for intercourse. At the same time, the penetration is taken to be a use, not an abuse; a normal use; it is appropriate to enter her, to push into ("violate") the boundaries of her body. She is human, of course, but by a standard that does not include physical privacy.
Source: Intercourse (1987), Chapter 7
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 35
“Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.”
"A Rally Against Rape" (1981), p. 82
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)
reflected even in our language—carving up "virgin territory," with strip mining often referred to as a "rape of the land" "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape" (1974) in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist.
“Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.”
TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html (March 2008).
“Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”
Pornography and Obscenity (1929)
“To an intelligent woman, the essential thing is to conquer her mind, not her body.”
Original: Ad una donna intelligente, l'essenziale è conquistare la sua mente, non il suo corpo.
Source: prevale.net
“It now seems that pornography is the leading sex educator in the Western world.”
Playboy interview (2003)
Context: It now seems that pornography is the leading sex educator in the Western world. And the idea of having your sexual nature determined by a medallion-in-the-chest-hair artist out in Los Angeles is really humiliating. I'm not talking about me, but I'm talking about my children's contemporaries, kids aged 18. They're getting their sex tips from some charlatan at Wicked Video.
