Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

their sleep at night. The witches have sex with men while theysleep; they use a man against his will, especially at night, whenhe is asleep and helpless. He ejaculates: proof that, by magic, awoman came to him in the night and did something to or withhis penis. In Europe, women were persecuted as witches fornearly four hundred years, burned at the stake, perhaps asmany as nine million of them—untold numbers accused ofcoming to men, having sex with them, causing them to ejaculate:at night, when the men slept. In these instances, then, thecharge of witchcraft was a male charge of rape: the man claimedto be taken against his will, used in sex against his will; certainlywithout his consent and in a way violative of his male prerogativesin sex over women. In Europe during the Inquisitionwomen were slaughtered for this rape of the male that tookplace in his own mind; for possessing him by making him fuck,twist, turn, tormented, in his sleep; for making him have sex orwant it or experience it imprisoned in his own isolated body,sex that was not the issue of his will or predetermination. Inmany cultures and tribes, men can be similarly possessed; andthe key to the possession—the dreams, the sex, the physical realityof desire, the obsession—is that the woman herself is magicaland evil; through wickedness and magic she exertsillegitimate (therefore magical; therefore wicked; thereforeoriginating in Satan) power over men.For women, being sexually possessed by men is more pedestrian.Women have been chattels to men as wives, as prostitutes,as sexual and reproductive servants. Being owned andbeing fucked are or have been virtually synonymous experiencesin the lives of women. He owns you; he fucks you. Thefucking conveys the quality of the ownership: he owns you insideout. The fucking conveys the passion of his dominance: it