common sense knowledge

unraveling the taken for granted

Andrea Dworkin Abortion (Excerpt from Chapter 3 from the book: Right Wing Women) August 13, 2007

Filed under: radical feminism, sexual revolution, sexuality — abject @ 9:35 am

[...]
Norman Mailer remarked during the sixties that the problem with the sexual revolution was that it had gotten into the hands of the wrong people. He was right. It was in the hands of men.

The pop idea was that fucking was good, so good that the more there was of it, the better. The pop idea was that people should fuck whom they wanted: translated for the girls, this meant that girls should want to be fucked–as close to all the time as was humanly possible. For women, alas, all the time is humanly possible with enough changes of partners. Men envision frequency with reference to their own patterns of erection and ejaculation. Women got fucked a lot more than men fucked.

(more…)