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

eciprocity, whereas pornography involves dominance and vio-.lence. But in the male sexual lexicon, which is the vocabulary ofpower, erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced,better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for abetter class of consumer. As with the call girl and the streetwalker,one is turned out better but both are produced by the same systemof sexual values and both perform the same sexual service.Intellectuals, especially, call what they themselves produce or like“erotica, ” which means simply that a very bright person made orlikes whatever it is. The pornography industry, larger than therecord and film industries combined, sells pornography, “thegraphic depiction of whores. ” In the male system, erotica is asubcategory of pornography.Finally, this is not a liberal book about how pornography hurtsall of us. As militant feminist Christabel Pankhurst wrote concerningthe trade in women in 1913: “Men have a simple remedy forthis state of things. They can alter their way of life. ” 1