If Pornography Is Part Of Your Sexuality,

Stopped As Attribute Of A Person, Sex Inequality Takes The Form Of Gender; Moving As A Relation Between People, It Takes The Form Of Sexuality. Gender Emerges As The Congealed Form Of The Sexualization Of Inequaltiy Between Men And Women.

Marxism Teaches That Exploitation And Degradation Somehow Produce Resistance And Revolution. It's Been Hard To Say Why. What I've Learned From Women's Experience With Sexuality Is That Exploitation And Degradation Produce Grateful Complicity In Exchange For Survival. They Produce Self-loathing To The Point Of Extinction Of Self, And It Is Respect For Self That Makes Resistance Conceivable.

So The Idea That There Is Nothing Essential, In The Sense That There Are No Human Universals, Is Dogma. Ask Most Anyone Who Is Going To Be Shot At Dawn.

It's Mainly A Few Elite Women Who Benefit Greatly From Standing With The Forces That Keep Women Down.

To Be A Prisoner Means To Be Defined As A Member Of A Group For Whom The Rules Of What Can Be Done To You, Of What Is Seen As Abuse Of You, Are Reduced As Part Of The Definition Of Your Status.