#pornstitution

[ohegarty]

I've witnessed women being strangled, being spat at, being knocked about, being kicked around on the floor, I've heard their screams whilst men are RAPING them, yes RAPING, not sleeping with them, ...

[ohegarty]

Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.

Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

[revenirr]

Catharine MacKinnon's lecture on Trafficking, Prostitution and Inequality