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In reply to the discussion: Andrea Dworkin NEVER said "all sex is rape" [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)"I" statements - claiming the emotion as her own, rather than pretend her extreme experience is reality for others. As a memoir of abuse, her work in Intercourse would be much more powerful - her anger and sense of violation after rape. I could entirely endorse her work as memoir, but not as feminist critique for hetero females about the human condition.
Her version of radical feminism leaves out what is, historically and currently, a condition of second-class status in capitalist society - and that condition is economic.
I have said, many times, I wish someone could create a valid model of society in which sex is separated from money and then see what women think about it. Of course, that would also mean sex as separated from marriage because marriage is a contract in American society that includes presumptions about roles and duties.
Of course, we do have other cultures in which females engage in sexual acts without the need of their societies to comment upon those women in any economic or social way, and in those, women seem to find intercourse a worthwhile activity in and of itself, without marriage contractually binding two parties to do anything other than have sex.
As far as your link - ugh. sophomoric. If that woman worries about whether a man will call her after she has sex, she shouldn't be having sex with him - or maybe anyone else. So, again, her aversion to PIV sex may be a good thing for her, but she doesn't speak for the women I know with whom I have discussed this issue many times in many ways - though she does remind me of a woman I knew as an undergrad who was talking to me on my way out of class one day who said... it's tough to be a heterosexual feminist - lol- then she got on her pink vespa and rode into the sunset... because so much of the critique of society has centered on roles generated by institutions but the critique limits its scope, and worth therefore, imo, to interpersonal relationships and not economic and cultural (religious esp) ones.