Andrea Dworkin Intercourse Quotes & Sayings

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. — Andrea Dworkin

Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. — Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse. — Andrea Dworkin

In the sexual-liberation movement of the sixties, its ideology and practice, neither force nor the subordinate status of women was an issue. It was assumed that - unrepressed - everyone wanted intercourse all the time (men, of course, had other important things to do; women had no legitimate reason not to want to be fucked); and it was assumed that in women an aversion to intercourse, or not climaxing from intercourse, or not wanting intercourse at a particular time or with a particular man, or wanting fewer partners than were available, or getting tired, or being cross, were all signs of and proof of sexual repression. Fucking per se was freedom per se. — Andrea Dworkin

In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice. — Andrea Dworkin

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it. — Andrea Dworkin