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Andrea Dworkin: Marriage as an...

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Source: Pornography, ch. 1 (1981).
-- Andrea Dworkin, (Sep 26 1946-2005), US radical feminist, civil rights activist, writer; She worked to have pornography classified as a form of sex discrimination; wrote Woman Hating, 1974.


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