Complexes Quote by Marielle Heller

The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies…

— Andrea Dworkin

Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.

— Susan Brownmiller

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

I feel like it's a subversive thing [a certain body type to admire] which keeps women preoccupied with something that doesn't matter, and takes…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

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

“Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half.”

— David Brooks

Pornography warps the way a man sees all women and girls. [...] Young females learn they are useful for one thing only and try…

— Henry Makow

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

“The hierarchy is disturbing. Women being enslaved to men. Women have fought against such treatment for hundreds of years and yet here—" "Yet here…

— Tiffany Reisz

The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.

— Pope John Paul II

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

— Andrea Dworkin

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women…

— Andrea Dworkin