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

Women are raped and coerced into sex.

If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

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.

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.