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

Russian Troubleswalkinlonglines. proverbN o two of us think alike about it, and yet it is clear tome, that question underlies the whole movement,and all our little skirmishing for better laws, and theright to vote, will yet be swallowed up in the realquestion, viz: Has woman a right to herself? It is verylittle to me to have the right to vote, to own property,etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in myabsolute right. N ot one wife in a thousand can dothat now.Lucy Stone, in a letter to Antoinette Brown,July 11, 1855Sexual freedom, then, means the abolition of prostitutionboth in and out of marriage; means theemancipation of woman from sexual slavery and hercoming into ownership and control of her own body;means the end of her pecuniary dependence uponman, so that she may never even seemingly have toprocure whatever she may desire or need by sexualfavors.Victoria Woodhull, “Tried As By Fire;or, T he T rue and T he False, Socially, ” 1874He said that life is very expensive. Even womenare more expensive. T hat when he wants to f---------- awoman they want so much money that he gives upthe idea.I pretended I didn’t hear, because I don’t speakpornography.Carolina Maria de Jesus, Child of the Dark