Abuse-survivors Quote by Carolyn Spring

“When women act on behalf of our own sexual desires, we get blamed for being raped, for the demise of modern masculinity, for men’s…

— Jaclyn Friedman

“greater sexual freedom expands the grey area between consensual sex and rape”

— none

“Rape is so particularly traumatic and so meaningful in so many ways, that there’s something about using the word in other contexts that diminishes…

— Sandra Brindley

“The letting go of patriarchy which creates one-sided citizens of women and men alike and culminates in violent living and violent relationships.”

— Matthew Fox

“One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women…

— Rosalind Coward

“In striving to fulfill our identities as women, it's important not to confound the various passages of life with each other. What we may…

— Erica Jong

“In spite of hopes to the contrary, pornography and mass culture are working to collapse sexuality with rape, reinforcing the patterns of male dominance…

— Susan G. Cole

“For two young women, bound together by blood and circumstance, but divided by religion, politics, and social class, the consequences were much more personal.”

— Stephen A. Reger

“Without (hetero)sexual abuse, (hetero)sexual harassment and the (hetero)sexualization of every aspect of female bodies and behaviors, there would not be patriarchy, and whatever other…

— Robert Jensen

“while the feminist movement of the 1970s was in part a “direct response to these conditions of early and pervasive marriage,” the ironic side…

— Rebecca Traister

“In the following pages, we’ll explain how seismic cultural shifts that began about ten thousand years ago rendered the true story of human sexuality…

— Christopher Ryan

“I believe that the rape-is-not-about-sex doctrine will go down in history as an example of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. It…

— Steven Pinker