Intercourse, by: Andrea Dworkin - Feminish

e reduced to being this sexual object to be pleasing to menwho will then, and only then, want to fuck her; once she ismade inferior in this way, she is sensual to men and attractsthem to her, and a man’s desire for her— to use her— is experiencedby him as her power over him. But equality does nothave this danger of intoxication or derangement or obsession.Equality means physical wholeness, virginity—for thewoman, equality requires not ever having been reduced tothat object of sensuality in order to be used as a tool of men’sdesire and satiation in sex. What is lost for the woman whenshe becomes a sexual object, and when she is confirmed inthat status by being fucked, is not recoverable. Just as the manis depraved, that is, an exploiter, so too the woman is depraved,that is, an object.According to the killer/husband, the inferiority of women insociety, including the civil inferiority of women, originates inintercourse, because in intercourse the woman is not, and cannotbe, the equal of men. She "'has not the right to use a manor abstain from him as she likes— is not allowed to choose aman at her pleasure instead of being chosen by him. ’”54His solutionis not an equality of sexual access, because intercourseby its nature requires the woman’s inferiority as a sexual object.Instead, men must not have the right to intercourse.Women will not revenge themselves on men through sensuality,acquiring "'a terrible power over people, ” ’55if men stop creatingwomen’s inequality because they want intercourse. Menneed inequality in order to fuck; and equality means that menalso need to be chaste.Marriage through sexual attraction, that is, so-called love, isalso an institution of inequality, because of what women mustdo to attract husbands: the woman is “ 4a slave in a bazaar or