Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

. . . Perched in this roost about fifty girls were packed togetherlike sick old hens, skeletal, shivering, clinging to theirdung-stained bars. T h o se with long legs could touch theground with the tips o f their toes, but the others, the smallerones like me, their legs dangling, had to grip the slipperyround bar with both hands with all their might. To fall into thepit must have been a most terrible death. 18These concentration camps are emblematic of socially createdconditions—artificial, vicious— in which racially degraded peopleare forced to live in racist societies of many descriptions:the Soweto shacks, urban ghettoes in the United States, Palestinianrefugee camps. The conditions imposed on the peopleare conditions of squalor; physical filth; a social reality embodyingthe degraded sexual reality of those devalued as dirt.Racially degraded women are specially targeted for sexualabuse and exploitation. That targeting is often systematic, theunderbelly of societies that say those women are racial dirt.They are found concentrated in brothels, on street corners,used in sex under slave conditions, prostituted on plantationsor in concentration camps, prostituted in prison camps or underprison conditions, prostituted to sexually service militaryenclaves, transient soldiers or occupying armies. In someracist societies, sex with them is legally forbidden; this makesthem especially appealing and at the same time invisible whenthey are sexually exploited in rape or prostitution. The dirt ofrace added to the dirt of sex makes them the most sexed creatures;they are, disproportionate to their numbers, forced, violated,bought and sold. They have no legal or social remedies.In the prisons of Argentina, for instance, Jacobo Timermandiscovered that “between 1974 and 1978, the violation of girls