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

ottle, or some other absolutely unhatchable object, which meansnothing to them.D. H . Lawrence, “Cocksure W omen and H ensure M en, ”Sex, Literature and Censorship14T he interest of the employed woman tends to become one with that of heremployer; between them they combine to crush the interests of the childwho represents the race, and to defeat the laws made in the interests of therace which are those of the community as a whole. T he employed womanwishes to earn as much wages as she can and with as little interruption asshe can. . .T his impulse on the employed woman’s part is by no means always andentirely the result of poverty, and would not, therefore, be removed byraising her wages.. . . her home means nothing to her; she only returnsthere to sleep, leaving it next morning at daybreak or earlier; she is ignoranteven of the simplest domestic arts; she moves about in her own home like astranger and awkward child.Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex"T h e queen is the most dangerous of creatures. H e is always on the vergeof threatening a m an’s virility. T his is not solely because the queenrepresents a man's antithesis, the extreme evil to be avoided at all costs(American education as a whole being devoted to making boys differentfrom girls), but because the queen is so nearly a woman that even ahidebound heterosexual may make a mistake.Georges-Michel Sarotte, Like a Brother, Like a Lover16“You were saying that a lot of your magazine offends you. T hen whydo you keep on publishing? ”“Because men all over the country need Hustler. T hey feel inferior, andthey are. W omen are naturally superior; they’re our only hope. I mean,my m other lives w ith me. I’ve always been close to her. She’s a saint.And I’m in favor of the w om en’s movement. It’s just that they take noresponsibility for scaring men. W hy do you think there’s so muchbisexuality on campuses? W hy do you think men molest children!Because they’re afraid of relating to liberated w om en. ”Larry Flynt, interviewed by Jeffrey K lein17. . . W hy does Samuel Butler say, “Wise men never say w hat they thinkof w om en”? Wise men never say anything else apparently.Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own18