Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

5F o r c eIndeed the Pentateuch is a long painful record ofwar, corruption, rapine, and lust. Why Christianswho wished to convert the heathen to our religionshould send them these books, passes all understanding.It is most demoralizing reading for children andthe unthinking masses, giving all alike the lowestpossible idea of womanhood, having no hope norambition beyond conjugal unions with men theyscarcely knew, for whom they could not have had theslightest sentiment of friendship, to say nothing ofaffection. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman's BibleAnd it should be realised, too, that captives, animalsor men [sic], are not constantly absorbed by thenotion of escape, for all their restless pacing behindthe bars. . . The long glance, the unquiet step areonly reflexes, brought about by habit or the size oftheir prison. Open the door that the bird, thesquirrel, the wild beast have been eyeing, besieging,imploring, and instead of the leap, the sudden flurryof wings you expected, the disconcerted creature willstiffen and draw back into the depths of its cage. Ihad plenty of time to think, and I was constantlyhearing the same grand, contemptuous, sarcasticwords, shining links of a fine-wrought chain: “Afterall, you are perfectly free.. . . ”Colette, My ApprenticeshipsThere are two photographs, part of a four-page layout with text. Inthe first photograph, there are two women. The woman on the leftis older. Her head is swathed in a black turban. Her skin is a tawny