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The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

— Andrea Dworkin Pornography, Men Possessing Women (1979)

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Reforms are made, important ones' but the status of women relative to men does not change.

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