Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

efore sin or shame or the invention of death. She is inferior inher existence as such. She was created for him, to be his: boneof his bones, flesh of his flesh. She belonged to him in her flesh,which was his flesh. There is no closer, more intimate meaningof belonging to: made for him from him; bone of his bones,flesh of his flesh; and God affirms that they are “ one flesh. ”Then the woman eats from the Tree of Knowledge, her inferiornature manifesting in the weakness that allows her tobe seduced by a snake; she disobeys God and eats the apple;she seduces her husband into eating the apple. All the boneof-my-bonesbusiness disappears, in a sense forever. She andhe are “one flesh” in that he has sovereignty over her body; butthey are different from then on, her bones not reminding one ofhis at all, her flesh so different from his that it might as wellhave been made out of some different material altogether. Shenever was much like him at all, it seems in retrospect, accordingto all the legal eagles, religious and secular, ever after untilfeminism.God curses the woman:U nto the wom an He said: “ I will greatly m ultiply thy painand thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; andthy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule overthee. ” (Genesis 3: 16)God curses the man too, saying that he will work and sweatand suffer and die; makes them clothes; and expels them fromEden.Immediately on being expelled, “And the man knew Eve hiswife; and she conceived and bore Cain. ..”(Genesis 4: 1).The Jerusalem Bible translation, in modern English, is more