Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

ody dies, or the lover discards the body when it is used up,throws it away, an old, useless thing, emptied, like an emptybottle. The body is used up; and the will is raped.In Satan in Goray, a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, possessionis literal: a dybbuk, an evil spirit, enters the body; and theentry itself is coital and literal:A N D REB M O R D E C A I JO SE P H said to the spirit, Throughwhat opening didst thou force thy way into the woman, andthe dybbuk spoke and said Through that same place. 2In the end, the possessed woman dies, but the supernaturalpossession is a phenomenon on the far end of a continuum: anintensification, an extreme exaggeration, of the sexual possessionthe woman has already experienced at the hands of mortalmen, leaders of the community; what they have done to her,how they have used her, their sexual possession of her, hasworn her down, left her vulnerable to supernatural possession,itself a form of rape:It was stifling and the T h in g pressed her to him, leaned againsther. T h e T hin g was a male; he tried to force her legs apart withhis bony knees. He spoke to her rapidly, hoarsely, breathinghard, imploring and demanding:“ Rechele! Quick! Let me! I want to defile you! ”“ N o, no! ”“ Rechele, you are already defiled! ”He threw her down, and entered her. 3Rechele, in the course of her short life as a woman on earth,had belonged to her father, who owned her without fucking