Andrea Dworkin
Andrea DworkinErotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived. better executed, better packaged. designed for a better class of consumer.
Erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer, but both are produced by the same system of sexual values and both perform the same sexual service.
Feminist art is not derivative, but rather is art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.
Pornography 1s 2ssential truth is that any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men.
Pornography is indicative of the fact that male sexuality is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history.
Pornography is no more a suitable stand-in for sexuality as recipe books are a suitable stand-in for starving children.
Pornography is premised by the utopian male concept that since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.
Rape is often difficult to distinguish from seduction. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
