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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
challenging
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
I think this book has to be viewed and read as a product of its time/the year of its initial publishing should not be forgotten. Considering that, I think everybody should read it, and they will find great truths in it that timelessly surpass its publishing year.
challenging
medium-paced
Stopped reading about a quarter of the way in. I found the writing inaccessible and convoluted. The introduction is very good though.
dark
informative
In the system of male sexual domination explicated in pornography, there is no way out, no redemption: not through desire, not through reproduction.
We will know that we are free when the pornography no longer exists. As long as it does exist, we must understand that we are the women in it: used by the same power, subject to the same valuation, as the vile whores who beg for more.
The boys are betting on our compliance, our ignorance, our fear. We have always refused to face the worst that man have done to us. The boys count on it. The boys are betting that we cannot face the horror of their sexual system and survive. (...) The boys are betting. The boys are wrong.
I don't know how many times I had to put the book away and pick it up at a later time. The descriptions of pornography that Dworking explores made me sick to my stomach. To know that these descriptions are 1) existing in the world and 2) sexually arousing to its consumers is harrowing.
Dworkin does not shy away from the "horror of their sexual system" that she mentions in the last page of this eye-opening read. It is incredibly hard to read, recognize and understand what she is talking about and to know that this is a reality that I have had the privilege to be ignorant to.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture
jag läste typ de sista 30 sidorna som jag lämnat av någon anledning. oh well
Duro, implacable e imprescindible. Un libro que debería leer todo el mundo, escrito por una de las mejores pensadoras feministas radicales.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
A must read. though it can be dense and I will probably need to read it several times to really understand it, I felt from the very beginning that my understanding of pornography, male sexuality and violence was so much more profound. She puts into words the complex suspicious I have previously had but have struggled to articulate. Although it might seem as if she is reaching at some points or the setting of your own life makes it unrelatable (you have not been a victim of this personally), I think it is important to not disregard those parts because there is always some truth in it (more often than not all of it is quite accurate). To speak frankly I am very tired of this notion that watching porn is so normal and that we should not kink shame, say that to the women of this book (who are all of us).