Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers.... Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. (Angela Carter)

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers.... Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

Angela Carter

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