Pornography from its beginnings justified and promoted this exclusion of all women by presenting the sexuality of all women as the sexuality of the brothel slut. Democracy from its beginnings excluded all women and some men. Two very significant words originated in the ancient Greece many of us revere: democracy and pornography. High-class prostitutes, a class distinct from the porneia and from wives both, had the only freedom of movement accorded women, and were the only educated women. Wives were kept in nearly absolute isolation, allowed the company of slaves and young children only. They were not allowed out, were never educated, were barely dressed, and in general were miserably treated they were the sexual garbage of Greek society. The whores called porneia were captive in brothels, which were designated as such by huge phalluses painted on or constructed near the door. Graphos means "writing, etching, or drawing. She was, simply and clearly and absolutely, a sexual slave. There were distinct classes of prostitutes in ancient Greece: the porne was the sexual cow. Porne means "whore," specifically the lowest class of whore, which in ancient Greece was the brothel slut available to all male citizens. The word pornography comes from the ancient Greek porne and graphos: it means "the graphic depiction of whores." Politically, culturally, socially, sexually, and economically, rape and prostitution generated pornography and pornography depends for its continued existence on the rape and prostitution of women. The fact is that rape and prostitution caused and continue to cause pornography.
"Feminists are often asked whether pornography causes rape. Pornography and Male Supremacy was first published in an anthology of speeches and essays by Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, 1988.
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