The excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual: the position of the genitals--inter urinas et faec...es--remains the decisive and unchangeable factor. One might say here, varying a well-known saying of the great Napoleon: "Anatomy is destiny."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is q...uintessentially secret. It is the perfect crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A commitment to sexual equality with males ... is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the... raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Lesbianism" would appear to be so little a threat at the moment that it is hardly ever mentioned.... Whatever its potentiality in... sexual politics, female homosexuality is currently so dead an issue that while male homosexuality gains a grudging tolerance, in women the event is observed in scorn or in silence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only c...ircumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our cu...lture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexu...al outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemoria...l subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set... so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »