Abuse Quote by Sheila Jeffreys

Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.

— Susan Brownmiller

“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

“As porn has gone mainstream, ushered two decades ago into middle-class living rooms and dens with VCRs and now available on the Internet, it…

— Chris Hedges

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

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

— Andrea Dworkin

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were…

— Angela Carter

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

— Anonymous

If you want to know the real meaning of pornography, it is the utter dissociation of love and sex, the banishment of love from…

— Martin Amis

“Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve to be dominated and abused. And once…

— Chris Hedges

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

“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

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