The Universal Religion - Contempt For Women.

[i]n The Male Sexual Lexicon, Which Is The Vocabulary Of Power, Erotica Is Simply High-class Pornography: Better Produced, Better Conceived, Better Executed, Better Packaged, Designed For A Better Class Of Consumer. As With The Call Girl And The Streetwalker, One Is Turned Out Better But Both Are Produced By The Same System Of Sexual Values And Both Perform The Same Sexual Service.

The Man Takes A Body That Is Not His, Claims It, Sows His So-called Seed, Reaps A Harvest - He Colonizes A Female Body, Robs It Of Its Natural Resources, Controls It.

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.

Every Three Minutes A Woman Is Being Raped. Every Eighteen Seconds A Woman Is Being Beaten. There Is Nothing Abstract About It. It Is Happening Right Now As I Am Speaking.

Writing Is Alchemy. Dross Becomes Gold. Experience Is Transformed. Pain Is Changed. Suffering May Become Song. The Ordinary Or Horrible Is Pushed By The Will Of The Writer Into Grace Or Redemption, A Prophetic Wail, A Screed For Justice, An Elegy Of Sadness Or Sorrow. ... There Is Always A Tension Between Experience And The Thing That Finally Carries It Forward, Bears Its Weight, Holds It In. Without That Tension, One Might As Well Write A Shopping List.