Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

I don’t care what these people do as long as they don’t enteror get entered. ”“Agreed.”“ 'I entered her and began to thrust. ’”“ I’m in total agreement, ” I said.“ ‘Enter me, enter me, yes, yes. ’”“ Silly usage, absolutely. ”“ ‘Insert yourself, Rex, I want you inside me, entering hard,entering deep, yes, now, oh. ’” 11Her protests make him hard. The stupidity of the “he enteredher” motif makes her laugh, not kindly. She hates it.We are not, of course, supposed to be lobbies or elevators.Instead, we are supposed to be wombs, maternal ones; and themen are trying to get back in away from all the noise and griefof being adult men with power and responsibility. The stakesfor men are high, as Norman O. Brown makes clear in proseunusually understated for him:Coitus successfully performed is incest, a return to the maternalwomb; and the punishment appropriate to this crime, castration.What happens to the penis is coronation, followed bydecapitation. 12This is high drama for a prosaic act of commonplace entry.Nothing is at risk for her, the entered; whereas he commits incest,is crowned king, and has his thing cut off. She might liketo return to the maternal womb too—because life outside it isnot easy for her either—but she has to be it, for husbands,lovers, adulterous neighbors, as well as her own children, boysespecially. Women rarely dare, as we say, draw a line: certainly