Aggression Quote by Andrea Dworkin

Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and…

— Andrea Dworkin

“Our laws and institutions concerning women's rights and male prerogatives are changing, but many men still believe that their masculine image depends on their…

— Susan Forward

Whatever the gender of the participants, all pornography including male-male gay pornography is an imitation of the male-female, conqueror-victim paradigm, and almost all of…

— Gloria Steinem

Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or…

— Andrea Dworkin

Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male…

— Andrea Dworkin

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…

— Sheila Jeffreys

Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

— Andrea Dworkin

Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with their own…

— Marielle Heller

“There's mainstream pornography--soft-core airbrushed fluff such as Penthouse and Playboy. The folks makin' this stuff do men and their range of desires a disservice;…

— Lisa Jervis

Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse…

— Sheila Jeffreys

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.

— Andrea Dworkin

Guys constantly talk about pornography in two ways: as revenge and as reassurance. When you live in a world in which beautiful, sexy women…

— Michael Kimmel