Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

equires access to every hidden inch. He can own everythingaround you and everything on you and everything you are capableof doing as a worker or servant or ornament; but gettinginside you and owning your insides is possession: deeper,more intimate, than any other kind of ownership. Intimate, raw,total, the experience of sexual possession for women is real andliteral, without any magical or mystical dimension to it: gettingfucked and being owned are inseparably the same; together,being one and the same, they are sex for women under maledominance as a social system. In the fuck, the man expressesthe geography of his dominance: her sex, her insides are part ofhis domain as a male. He can possess her as an individual— beher lord and master—and thus be expressing a private right ofownership (the private right issuing from his gender); or he canpossess her by fucking her impersonally and thus be expressinga collective right of ownership without masquerade ormanners. Most women are not distinct, private individuals tomost men; and so the fuck tends toward the class assertion ofdominance. Women live inside this reality of being owned andbeing fucked: are sensate inside it; the body learning to respondto what male dominance offers as touch, as sex, as love.For women, being possessed is the sex that has to meet theneed for love or tenderness or physical affection; therefore, itcomes to mean, to show, the intensity of desire; and being eroticallyowned by a man who takes you and fucks you is a physicallycharged and meaningful affirmation of womanhood orfemininity or being desired.This reality of being owned and being fucked— as experience,a social, political, economic, and psychological unity—frames, limits, sets parameters for, what women feel andexperience in sex. Being that person who is owned and fucked