[i]n The Male Sexual Lexicon, Which Is

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.

If Pornography Releases Sexual Tension, Why Don't We Send Recipe Books To The Starving?

Romantic Love, In Pornography As In Life, Is The Mythic Celebration Of Female Negation. For A Woman, Love Is Defined As Her Willingness To Submit To Her Own Annihilation.... The Proof Of Love Is That She Is Willing To Be Destroyed By The One Whom She Loves, For His Sake. For The Woman, Love Is Always Self-sacrifice, The Sacrifice Of Identity, Will, And Bodily Integrity, In Order To Fulfill And Redeem The Masculinity Of Her Lover.

I Don’t Believe Rape Is Inevitable Or Natural. If I Did, I Would Have No Reason To Be Here. If I Did, My Political Practice Would Be Different Than It Is. Have You Ever Wondered Why We [women] Are Not Just In Armed Combat Against You? It’s Not Because There’s A Shortage Of Kitchen Knives In This Country. It Is Because We Believe In Your Humanity, Against All The Evidence.

And On That Day, The Day Of Truce, That Day When Not One Woman Is Raped, We Will Begin The Real Practice Of Equality, Because We Can't Begin It Before That Day. Before That Day It Means Nothing, Because It Is Nothing; It Is Not Real; It Is Not True.