Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

way. In fact the relationship which we ought to have with G odis itself violated when our nature, o f which he is the Author, isdesecrated by perverted lust. 7The laws regulating intercourse—prescribing how we must useeach other (be used) as well as proscribing how we must notuse each other—are supposed to protect the authentic naturesof men and women. Men being fucked like women moves in anopposite direction; so there is a rule against men being fuckedlike women. The rules on intercourse are intended to keeppeople away from the slippery slope God appears to dislike themost: a lessening of differences between the sexes, the conflationof male and female natures into one human nature.Sodomy, then, a notorious crime against nature, male nature,would appear to be a real threat to male dominance as organizedand maintained in the Judeo-Christian system. * In the OldTestament it is prohibited as a capital crime: “Thou shalt not liewith mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination” (Leviticus18: 22). “And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind,both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surelybe put to death; their blood shall be upon them” (Leviticus20: 13). Adjacent verses also condemn in the same terms a manor a woman having intercourse with an animal, and that too isreckoned to be sodomy. Other capital crimes include adulteryand various forms of incest. From the Old Testament to the endof the eighteenth century in Western Europe and the United*See Dworkin, “Jews and Homosexuals, ” pp. 107-146, Right-wingWomen (Perigee Books, New York, 1983; The Women’s Press, London,1983), for discussion of how in ancient Greece sodomy was condoned andused to express male dominance; also for a discussion on the particular vehemenceof Christianity against the homosexual.