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In reply to the discussion: Andrea Dworkin NEVER said "all sex is rape" [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)But not very. If Dworkin were alive today she'd still be saying the same things, just as many today still parrot out her words and ideas. I don't think those words and ideas would be all that much different today.
Dworkin doesn't limit her rhetoric to marital rape or even coitus under marriage, so why anyone thinks this is what Dworkin was talking about either didn't read Dworkin very well or is operating on a level I am incapable of understanding. When coitus itself is described frequently by Dworkin as violating, coercive, and harmful to women, it's pretty clear Dworkin wasn't just talking about marital rape. Dworkin, et al, believe that coitus under gender roles is inherently void of choice (which is accurately described as synonymous with rape).
[div class="excerptMen have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women.
― Andrea Dworkin