Categories Quote by Catharine MacKinnon

In the theatre, there were plenty of people having sex all over the place - wanting to, and doing it quite successfully - but…

— Roger Allam

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

— Anonymous

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned…

— B. F. Skinner

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart.…

— Dick Cavett

I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex.

— Hugh Hefner

All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

— Catharine MacKinnon

“There is a cultural disconnect here. Society struggles to see women as perpetrators of sexual violence. We’re taught to believe women can’t be that…

— Carlos Wallace

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

— Pat Brown

For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power…

— Riane Eisler

“Sex taken violently under threat is an emotional train wreck that derails not only the law but, more importantly, the sanctity of the soul.…

— Howard Swindle

“Intercourse was now forbidden to everyone but married people; bundling disappeared. In its place young courting couples engaged in "petting"--which, interpreted broadly, meant that…

— Leora Tanenbaum

... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the…

— Judith Lewis Herman