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A review by emily2348
Pornography: Men Possessing Women by Andrea Dworkin
5.0
never has descriptions of something in a book made me feel this physically sick, a must-read for any woman who still thinks porn can be “feminist”
(reread) dworkin’s brain is something so revolutionary, reading this a second time has impacted me more than the first time, im so glad this has been re-published and hopefully it gets into the hands of more women! one of the most important messages is on the last page:
“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 men 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 that their depictions of us as whores will beat us down and stop our hearts. The boys are betting that their penises and fists and knives and fucks and rapes will turn us into what they say we are the compliant women of sex, the voracious cunts of pornography, the masochistic sluts who resist because we really want more. The boys are betting. The boys are wrong.”
(reread) dworkin’s brain is something so revolutionary, reading this a second time has impacted me more than the first time, im so glad this has been re-published and hopefully it gets into the hands of more women! one of the most important messages is on the last page:
“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 men 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 that their depictions of us as whores will beat us down and stop our hearts. The boys are betting that their penises and fists and knives and fucks and rapes will turn us into what they say we are the compliant women of sex, the voracious cunts of pornography, the masochistic sluts who resist because we really want more. The boys are betting. The boys are wrong.”