Women have had virtually nothing to do with either formulating or applying laws on obscenity or anything else. In the arena of political power, women have been effectively silenced. The social and sexual values of women are barely discernible in the culture in which we live. In most instances, women have been deprived of the opportunity even to formulate, let alone articulate or spread, values that contradict those of the male. The attempts that we make are both punished and ridiculed.
Rape is widespread.
One characteristic of rape is that it silences women. Battery is widespread. One characteristic of battery is that it silences women. Laws against battery have been, in their application, a malicious joke. There is not a feminist alive who could possibly look to the male legal system for real protection from the systematized sadism of men.