“All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.”
The allegation that Catharine MacKinnon equated sex with rape, or suggested that all sex is hostile, seems to have been first made in the October 1986 issue of Playboy. Catharine MacKinnon has denied ever saying anything of the kind. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mackinno.htm
Instead MacKinnon asserts that rape and intercourse are "difficult to distinguish" (1983), and that "the major distinction between intercourse (normal) and rape (abnormal) is that the normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with it" (1989).
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American feminist and legal activist 1946Related quotes
"Sex and Violence: A Perspective" (1981), p. 88
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)
“By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape.”
[J.T., Leonard, http://www.sunjournal.com/story/205234-3/LewistonAuburn/Schlafly_cranks_up_agitation_at_Bates/, Schlafly cranks up agitation at Bates, Sun Journal, 2007-03-29, 2007-03-30]
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Marriage
Have Your Loved Ones Spayed and Neutered (2004)
Variant: If you're a man and you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, you're either gay or married.
Citizenship Papers (2003), A Citizen's Response
Context: To imply by the word "terrorism" that this sort of terror is the work exclusively of "terrorists" is misleading. The "legitimate" warfare of technologically advanced nations likewise is premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against innocents. The distinction between the intention to perpetrate violence against innocents, as in "terrorism," and the willingness to do so, as in "war," is not a source of comfort.
At a parliamentary proceeding in 2006.
Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) 30 May 2006 http://books.google.co.ke/books?id=QFo7l7JfnXwC&pg=PT13&lpg=PT13&dq=Kenyans+can+still+have+sex+with+their+partners+even+when+they+are+asleep+so+long+as+they+are+married&source=bl&ots=H2kaZr_H_c&sig=03parKUXdkYQBOKYqnUmE2VaeIk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aN4XUOD8NpOYhQfQ1YHQBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Kenyans%20can%20still%20have%20sex%20with%20their%20partners%20even%20when%20they%20are%20asleep%20so%20long%20as%20they%20are%20married&f=false
“It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.”