Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

The community asserts its right to insist on the fuck; and thecommunity asserts its right to keep the ultimate meaning andconsequence of possession secret; known to men, not towomen—not publicly visible to women; known especially tothe men who take particular pleasure in the real and final destructionof the possessed: this final destruction best done insecret, in hiding, in the great prisons and brothels of esotericpornography; not in the public square, not in the synagogue.The community has rules; and the rules of the community protectmale power. The fuck is legitimate sexual possession, effectivein taking over the woman’s insides; but the impersonallypossessed and pornographized woman in public goes too far,especially in exposing to women the real cost of male dominance,the real meaning of possession, a destiny down the road.Rechele dies. Goray sets limits again, goes back to being holyand religious and law-abiding; so that those who do the fuckingcan maintain their social and sexual power; so that their potencywill be sustained, not threatened, by the interfacing ofpublic order and private reality. In a world of male power—penilepower—fucking is the essential sexual experience of powerand potency and possession; fucking by mortal men, regularguys. Alone together, a man fucks a woman; he possesses her;the act is an act of possession in and of itself; the man and thewoman experience it as such. Neither appears to know that thecommunity participates in the fuck, giving it its power as possession:shades cheering at the bedside, checking the sheets inthe morning for blood. The sex act virtually stands in for thecommunity; the man a good soldier, advancing his side overtricky terrain. Fucking is an exemplary sex act, an act of possession,intimate, private; the community’s imperative to fuck andregulation of the fuck invisible in the fuck itself.