Catharine MacKinnon Sex Quotations

All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.

Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.

Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.

Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.

Women are raped and coerced into sex.

In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.