"rape and PIV* are almost the same thing", Part II. Welcome to Bizarro World.

[Warren DeMontague]

http://radfemimages.wordpress.com/the-gears/#PIV

but no one ever says it: for example, “normal” PIV is often coerced or occurs under circumstances that are or objectively appear to be coercive; both PIV and rape are politically motivated and politically effective, and specifically and uniquely oppressive to women; rape and PIV are the only things *in life* that cause unwanted pregnancy; and both are known to cause trauma-bonding.

*PIV means "penis-in-vagina", you know, that unnatural sex act that no one ever did before the Space Patriarchy™ took over.

I think this deliberate muddying of what should be clear concepts like consent is atrocious.

Intercourse and its attendant female-specific reproductive harm is the source of terrible suffering for women all around the world.

Intercourse being central, necessary or even included in female sexual pleasure is ahistorical, acontextual, and dependent on consumerist “first world” conveniences and harm-reduction strategies such as hormonal and other birth control devices and products which are dangerous themselves, and less than 100% effective. To call intercourse “sex” or conflate it with women’s or even men’s sexual pleasure is not merely misguided, but rather, a deliberate and effective means of normalizing female submission and suffering and increasing men’s individual and collective power. Because PIV and its attendant harms affect all women, across time and place, and is central to our suffering and our political and interpersonal standing, and because men’s political and interpersonal standing increase as ours decrease, intercourse should rightly be seen as the foundation of patriarchy itself.

Regardless of the wishful-thinking of — and deliberate obfuscation by — some liberals and feminists, intercourse continues to be very much a political act and a political institution that is supportive of male power

(emphasis added)