Catharine MacKinnon Sex Quotations

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

Women are raped and coerced into sex.

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.

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism...

If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

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

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.

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.

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