Erotica Is Simply High-class Pornography; Better Produced,

Marriage As An Institution Developed From Rape As A Practice. Rape, Originally Defined As Abduction, Became Marriage By Capture. Marriage Meant The Taking Was To Extend In Time, To Be Not Only Use Of But Possession Of, Or Ownership.

The Cultural Institutions Which Embody And Enforce Those Interlocked Aberrations-for Instance, Law, Art, Religion, Nation-states, The Family, Tribe, Or Commune Based On Father-right-these Institutions Are Real And They Must Be Destroyed.

Pornography Reveals That Male Pleasure 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. The Private World Of Sexual Dominance That Men Demand As Their Right And Their Freedom Is The Mirror Image Of The Public World Of Sadism And Atrocity That Men Consistently And Self-righteously Deplore. It Is In The Male Experience Of Pleasure That One Finds The Meaning Of Male History.

For A Mother The Project Of Raising A Boy Is The Most Fulfilling Project She Can Hope For. She Can Watch Him, As A Child, Play The Games She Was Not Allowed To Play; She Can Invest In Him Her Ideas, Aspirations, Ambitions, And Values - Or Whatever She Has Left Of Them; She Can Watch Her Son, Who Came From Her Flesh And Whose Life Was Sustained By Her Work And Devotion, Embody Her In The World. So While The Project Of Raising A Boy Is Fraught With Ambivalence And Leads Inevitably To Bitterness, It Is The Only Project That Allows A Woman To Be - To Be Through Her Son, To Live Through Her Son.

When Two Individuals Come Together And Leave Their Gender Outside The Bedroom Door, Then They Make Love.