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> [Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women to find passive, objectified men sexy in large enough numbers to make a pornography industry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/pornography-is-not-egalitarian-and-gender-free-it-is-predicated-upon/)

[Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-jeffreys/)

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## More by Sheila Jeffreys

> [“Women incorporate the values of the male sexual objectifiers within themselves. Catharine MacKinnon calls this being "thingified" in the head (MacKinnon, 1989). They learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/women-incorporate-the-values-of-the-male-sexual-objectifiers-within/)

[Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-jeffreys/)

> [Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/men-have-been-adjudicating-on-what-women-are-and-how-they-should/)

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> [Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/girls-learn-to-love-and-have-sexual-feelings-in-a-position-of-low/)

[Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-jeffreys/)

> [As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/as-a-feminist-i-consider-the-female-pronoun-to-be-an-honorific-a-term/)

[Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-jeffreys/)

> [“The main problem for women trying to emulate male sexuality is that as a ruling-class sexuality, it is constructed around the fact that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/the-main-problem-for-women-trying-to-emulate-male-sexuality-is-that/)

[Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-jeffreys/)

> [“Both the veil and makeup are often seen as voluntary behaviours by women, taken up by choice and to express agency. But in both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/both-the-veil-and-makeup-are-often-seen-as-voluntary-behaviours-by/)

[Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-jeffreys/)

> [“Men's sexual freedom has depended, and still does to a large extent, upon their ownership of women's bodies. Men have bought, sold and traded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/men-s-sexual-freedom-has-depended-and-still-does-to-a-large-extent/)

[Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-jeffreys/)

> [Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/men-s-ideas-about-what-women-are-have-been-formed-from-their-ruling/)

[Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-jeffreys/)

> [Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/pornography-is-not-egalitarian-and-gender-free-it-is-predicated-upon/)

[Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-jeffreys/)

> [Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/masculinity-cannot-exist-without-femininity-on-its-own-masculinity/)

[Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-jeffreys/)

> [Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/male-supremacy-is-centered-on-the-act-of-sexual-intercourse-justified/)

[Sheila Jeffreys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-jeffreys/)

> [Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/masculinity-is-part-of-a-binary-and-requires-its-opposite-since-in/)

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> [The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/the-opposite-of-heterosexual-desire-is-the-eroticising-of-sameness-a/)

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> [“The effect of legalised prostitution on women outside prostitution is to lower the status of all women. Women are recognised by the state in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/the-effect-of-legalised-prostitution-on-women-outside-prostitution-is/)

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> [Male domination, and the low and stigmatised status of women, cause teenage girls to engage in punishment of their bodies through eating disorders and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-jeffreys/male-domination-and-the-low-and-stigmatised-status-of-women-cause/)

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