In 2000 she published an article in which she said that she had been drugged and raped in a Paris hotel, and worse, few people close to her had believed her account. As a child she was sexually abused her first husband beat her in between, arrested during a protest against the war in Vietnam, she was assaulted by two prison doctors. She had, sadly, enough evidence in her own life for the linking of violence and sex. Not coincidentally, she was an expert in the writings of the Marquis de Sade. A law she co-authored for the city of Indianapolis treated pornography as a violation of civil rights (the law was later overturned). means remaining the victim, forever annihilating all self-respect.” She loathed pornography, feeling that it legitimised and promoted rape. There were others horrified and outraged by violence against women, but she went further: “Intercourse with men. OF THE American feminists who came to prominence in the 1960s and early 1970s, Andrea Dworkin was the fiercest.
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