

Sexual-revolution philosophy predates the sixties. Women got fucked a lot more than men fucked.

Men envision frequency with reference to their own patterns of erection and ejaculation. For women, alas, all the time is humanly possible with enough changes of partners. The pop idea was that people should fuck whom they wanted: translated for the girls, this meant that girls should want to be fucked – as close to all the time as was humanly possible. The pop idea was that fucking was good, so good that the more there was of it, the better. Norman Mailer remarked during the sixties that the problem with the sexual revolution was that it had gotten into the hands of the wrong people. –NPįrom Chapter 3, Abortion, from Right Wing Women, pp 71-105Ĭopyright © 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982 by Andrea Dworkin I have manually formatted the text, which required removing the many footnotes to see them all (and read the rest of this great chapter or the whole book) download the free PDF here. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, she gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist anti-pornography movement, and for her writing on pornography and sexuality, particularly in Pornography - Men Possessing Women (1981) and Intercourse (1987), which remain her two most widely known books.This is my favorite excerpt from my favorite chapter, Abortion, from my favorite Andrea Dworkin book, Right Wing Women. Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women.Īn anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin wrote 10 books on radical feminist theory and practice. During the late 1970s and the 1980s, she gained national fame as a spokeswoman for the feminist anti-pornography movement, and for her writing on pornography and sexuality, particularly in Pornography - Men Possessing Women (1981) and Intercourse (1987), which remain her two most widely known books. An anti-war activist and anarchist in the late 1960s, Dworkin wrote 10 books on radical feminist theory and practice.

Andrea Rita Dworkin was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women.
