Men Use The Night To Erase Us.

Sex As Desired By The Class That Dominates Women Is Held By That Class To Be Elemental, Urgent, Necessary, Even If Or Even Though It Appears To Require The Repudiation Of Any Claim Women Might Have To Full Human Standing. In The Subordination Of Women, Inequality Itself Is Sexualized, Made Into The Experience Of Sexual Pleasure, Essential To Sexual Desire.

Being Stigmatied By Sex Is Being Marked By Its Meaning In A Human Life Of Loneliness And Imperfection, Where Some Pain Is Indelible.

Pornography Is The Essential Sexuality Of Male Power: Of Hate, Of Ownership, Of Hierarchy; Of Sadism, Of Dominance.

By The Time We Are Women, Fear Is As Familiar To Us As Air. It Is Our Element. We Live In It, We Inhale It, We Exhale It, And Most Of The Time We Do Not Even Notice It.

As I See It, Our Revolutionary Task Is To Destroy Phallic Identity In Men And Masochistic Non-identity In Women--that Is, To Destroy The Polar Realities Of Men And Women As We Now Know Them So That This Division Of Human Flesh Into Two Camps--one An Armed Camp And The Other A Concentration Camp--is No Longer Possible. Phallic Identity Is Real And It Must Be Destroyed. Female Masochism Is Real And It Must Be Destroyed.