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 »
Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their father...s by keeping secrets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether the child is the father's or someone else's, if a man is involved in the physical care of his child before the age of thre...e, there is a dramatic reduction in the probability that that man will be involved later in life in sexual abuse of children in general as well as his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no r...eturn. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls. They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right and wrong.... Values are relative. Truth is relative. Morality is defined by individual choice. If that isn't a recipe for sexual harassment and other forms of sexual and physical abuse, I don't know what it is.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 »