Feminism Exists So That No Woman Ever

The Traditional Flowers Of Courtship Are The Traditional Flowers Of The Grave, Delivered To The Victim Before The Kill. The Cadaver Is Dressed Up And Made Up And Laid Down And Ritually Violated And Consecrated To An Eternity Of Being Used.

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.

In This Society, The Norm Of Masculinity Is Phallic Aggression. Male Sexuality Is, By Definition, Intensely And Rigidly Phallic. A Man's Identity Is Located In His Conception Of Himself As The Possessor Of A Phallus; A Man's Worth Is Located In His Pride In Phallic Identity. The Main Characteristic Of Phallic Identity Is That Worth Is Entirely Contingent On The Possession Of A Phallus. Since Men Have No Other Criteria For Worth, No Other Notion Of Identity, Those Who Do Not Have Phalluses Are Not Recognized As Fully Human.

I Have To Ask You To Resist, Not To Comply, To Destroy The Power Men Have Over Women, To Refuse To Accept It, To Abhor It And To Do Whatever Is Necessary Despite Its Cost To You To Change It.

We Are Born Into A World In Which Sexual Possibilities Are Narrowly Circumscribed. . . . We Are Programmed By The Culture As Surely As Rats Are Programmed To Make The Arduous Way Through The Scientist's Maze, And That Programming Operates On Every Level Of Choice And Action.