Andrea Dworkin

both are produced by the same system of sexual values and both perform the same sexual service. Intellectuals, especially, call what they themselves produce or like “erotica, ” which means simply that a very bright person made or likes whatever it is.

Finally, this is not a liberal book about how pornography hurts all of us. As militant feminist Christabel Pankhurst wrote concerning the trade in women in 1913: “Men have a simple remedy for this state of things. They can alter their way of life.”

For freedom is always relative to power, and the kind of freedom which at any moment it is most urgent to affirm depends on the nature of the power which is prevalent and established.
R. H. Tawney, Equality