Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

in human form but even that not quite, not exactly, who cannotremember or manifest the physical reality of freedom, who donot seem to want or to value the individual experience of freedom?Being an object for a man means being alienated fromother women—those like her in status, in inferiority, in sexualfunction. Collaboration by women with men to keep womencivilly and sexually inferior has been one of the hallmarks of femalesubordination; we are ashamed when Freud notices it, butit is true. That collaboration, fully manifested when a womanvalues her lover, the National Socialist, above any woman, anyoneof her own kind or class or status, may have simple beginnings:the first act of complicity that destroys self-respect, thecapacity for self-determination and freedom—readying thebody for the fuck instead of for freedom. The men have an answer:intercourse is freedom. Maybe it is second-class freedomfor second-class humans.What does it mean to be the person who needs to have thisdone to her: who needs to be needed as an object; who needsto be entered; who needs to be occupied; who needs to bewanted more than she needs integrity or freedom or equality?If objectification is necessary for intercourse to be possible,what does that mean for the person who needs to be fucked sothat she can experience herself as female and who needs to bean object so that she can be fucked?The brilliance of objectification as a strategy of dominanceis that it gets the woman to take the initiative in her own degradation(having less freedom is degrading). The woman herselftakes one kind of responsibility absolutely and thus commitsherself to her own continuing inferiority: she polices her ownbody; she internalizes the demands of the dominant class and,in order to be fucked, she constructs her life around meeting