Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice. — Robin Morgan · Skopia

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Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice.

1977

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Pornography Rape Oppression of women Feminist theory

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Morgan, Robin. Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist. Random House, 1977, ch. 4, sec. 2.

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