Pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women s bodies and souls it is war on women Pornography, Andrea Dworkin argued in this landmark work, is about power: the power of owning, of money, of sex. It is not merely violence against women, but the essential DNA of male dominance. As images of women s bodies continue to be manipulated and consumed, her searing, fearless critique of pornographic media is more urgent and discomfiting than ever. A major text for our time Adrienne Rich Dworkin writes with power, anger, daring and from a great care and love of womankind Alice Walker The woman who showed us the dark core of pornography, the punishing hatred of women that pervades it Guardian