Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

and you fuck him; and ultimately the law exists to keep menfrom getting fucked by men.The law creates the female; inferior by nature; a lower civiland sexual status inherent in what she is, how and why she wasmade; inferior in existence right from the beginning.There are two stories of the creation of so-called mankind inGenesis. In the first: “And God created man in His own image,in the image of God created He him; male and female createdHe them” (Genesis 1: 27). In the second, man is created first, singularand alone. He is dissatisfied and lonely. God parades all ofcreation before him but he cannot find a companion. Finally:And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man,and he slept; and He took one o f his ribs, and closed up theplace with flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the LordGod had taken from the man, made He a woman, and broughther unto the man. And the man said: “This is now bone of mybones, and flesh o f my flesh; she shall be called Woman, becauseshe was taken out o f Man. ”. . . and they shall be oneflesh. (Genesis 2: 21-24)Affirmed by God as “one flesh” and claimed by a sinless butnonetheless arrogant man as “bone of my bones, and flesh ofmy flesh, ” she was his because she was of him; derived fromhim. Jurists for centuries thereafter recognized a man and hiswife as one flesh: the man’s.The first story of creation is nearly an equality model. It didnot resonate in Judeo-Christian systems of law; nowhere doesit appear as a model for the systems of secular law that take theBible as a source of civic or social morality. The second storymakes woman clearly subservient to the man even in Paradise,