>>1716253their calculations are irremediably stymied by woman's pleasure, as it increases indefinitely from its passage in and through the other.
However, in order for woman to the place where she takes pleasure as woman, a long detour by way of the analysis of the various systems of oppression brought to bear upon her is assuredly necessary. And claiming to fall back on the single solution of pleasure risks making her miss the process of going back through a social practice that her enjoyment requires.
For woman is traditionally a use-value for man, an exch:m~~e value among men; in other words, a commodity. As such, she remains the guardian of material substance, whose price will be established, in terms of the standard of their and of their need! desire, by "subjects": workers, merchants, consumers. Women are marked phallicly by their fathers, husbands, pro curers. And this branding determines their value in sexual com merce. Woman is never anything but the locus ofa more or less competitive exchange between two men, including the com petition for the possession of mother earth.
