Banners were unfurled in front of ongoing films. Blood was poured on magazines and sex paraphernalia designed to hurt women. We used militant activism to defy and to try to destroy the men who exist to hurt women, that is, the pimps who make pornography. Before feminists took on the pornographers, each woman, as always, had thought that only she had been abused in, with, or because of pornography. Each woman lived in isolation, fear, shame.
Terror creates silence.
Each woman had lived in unbreachable silence. To talk about rape alone, or battery alone, or incest alone, was not to talk about the totality of how the women had been violated. We found that when pornography created sexual abuse, men learned any new tricks the pornographers had to teach. The forced filming of forced sex became a new sexual violation of women. In sexual terms, pornography created for women and children concentration camp conditions.