“Postmodern descriptions of prostituted women as sex workers promotes an acceptance of conditions that in any other employment context would be correctly described as sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, or rape. Women’s experiences of violence and their psychological response to it cannot be theorized away.”
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Cultural Amnesia (2006)
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Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy" (1989) Ethics, Vol. 99, No. 2 pp. 314-346
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As trans women we’re expected to function as sexual objects and an aide in satisfying the cis-hetero male libido. We’re demonized and criminalized as perverts out to trick and deceive cis hetero men; therefore anything that happens to us, we ‘had coming.
As quoted in [Bendix, Trish, Why it matters that transgender women are speaking out about Jeffrey Tambor — and that people are listening, https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/matters-transgender-women-speaking-jeffrey-tambor-people-listening-163706277.html, 29 January 2019, Yahoo! Lifestyle, November 21, 2017]

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

“Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 288.