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

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7W h o r e sThe best houses do not exhibit the women in cages.The Nightless City or the Historyof the Yoshiwara Yukwaku, 1899 reporton a red-light district in JapanMale sexual domination is a material system with an ideology and ametaphysics. T he sexual colonialization of women’s bodies is amaterial reality: men control the sexual and reproductive uses ofwomen’s bodies. T he institutions of control include law, marriage,prostitution, pornography, health care, the economy, organizedreligion, and systematized physical aggression against women (forinstance, in rape and battery). Male domination of the female bodyis the basic material reality of women’s lives; and all struggle fordignity and self-determination is rooted in the struggle for actualcontrol of one’s own body, especially control over physical access toone’s own body. T he ideology of male sexual domination posits thatmen are superior to women <strong>by</strong> virtue of their penises; that physicalpossession of the female is a natural right of the male; that sex is, infact, conquest and possession of the female, especially but notexclusively phallic conquest and phallic possession; that the use ofthe female body for sexual or reproductive purposes is a naturalright of men; that the sexual will of men properly and naturallydefines the parameters of a woman’s sexual being, which is herwhole identity. T he metaphysics of male sexual domination is thatwomen arc whores. This basic truth transcends all lesser truths inthe male system. O ne does not violate something <strong>by</strong> using it forwhat it is: neither rape nor prostitution is an abuse of the femalebecause in both the female is fulfilling her natural function; that is

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