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.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

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.

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men.

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

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.