Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable t…

Andrea Dworkin
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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do. ✨ Pornography: Men Possessing Women ch. 5 (1981)
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