Catharine A. MacKinnon

"Show me an abuse of women in society, Ill show it to you made sex in the pornography. If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world. You will find them being hurt in just that way."

"We are stripped of authority and reduced and devaluated and silenced. Silenced here means that the purposes of the First Amendment, premised upon conditions presumed and promoted by protecting free speech, do not pertain to women because they are not our conditions. Consider them: individual self-fulfillment – how does pornography promote our individual self-fulfillment? How does sexual inequality even permit it? Even if she can form words, who listens to a woman with a penis in her mouth?"

"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."

"In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of "sex"; they were not coerced enough."

"In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist."

"the major distinction between intercourse (normal) and rape (abnormal) is that the normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with it."

"Compare victims reports of rape with womens reports of sex. They look a lot alike"

"Male sexuality is apparently activated by violence against women and expresses itself in violence against women to a significant extent."

"Women are raped and coerced into sex."

"Women fake vaginal orgasms, the only mature sexuality, because men demand that they enjoy vaginal penetration."

"Some have argued that lesbian sexuality-meaning here simply women having sex with women not men-solves the problem of gender by eliminating men from womens voluntary sexual encounters. Yet womens sexuality remains constructed under conditions of male supremacy; women remain socially defined as women in relation to men; the definition of women as mens inferiors remains sexual even if not heterosexual, whether men are present at the time or not."

"Objectivity is the methodological stance of which objectification is the social process. Sexual objectification is the primary process of the subjection of women. It unites act with word, construction with expression, perception with enforcement, myth with reality. Man fucks woman; subject verb object."