The penultimate incarnation of the Woman's Voice before True Equality is the voice that does not adapt the facts to our sensibilities, but says as it is, and calls things for exactly what they are. Andrea Dworkin is that voice. The Conservatives called her radical and the Radicals called her conservative.

Chapter I
1. The true test of acceptability is if we lived in a society where all are supported, and are given the choice to do, or not, and not suffer any negative repercussions to lifestyle as a result of the choice to do, or not, how many people would choose to do a thing.
2. How many prostitutes would we have?
3. How many female pornstars would we have?
4. How many centrefolds would we have?
5. Indeed, how many marriages would last past two years in the early stages of such a social system?
6. And because of the prevailing conditions of society, would it be a bad thing?
7. And men would change.
8. The majority of men, who are closer to the caveman than the modern human in essentials, could no longer exist in the form they do today.
9. In regard to the above mentioned endeavours, some would continue to do them, but do not believe for a minute that more than one percent of those who do it now would continue to participate in things such as prostitution or hardcore pornography as a profession if they had a safety net of financial support.
10. It is no big prediction to say that the twenty-first century is going to be the century of transition for human society.
11. In the Gender issue and indeed in most social issues, the twentieth century prepared the way.
12. But then, as can happen when looking to head into uncharted territory, we lost our way for a little while.
13. As we head into the twenty-first century the tiniest of steps is required in so many issues.
14. But they can't be taken the way we have always taken the steps toward change; this time it will be subtlety, subtlety, subtlety.
15. And people like Andrea Dworkin are absolutely essential; to take us to the brink of the final step; to twinge the conscience of those who sit on an ever more increasingly crowded apathetic fence.
16. The world will change greatly in the twenty-first century, and for the better, and Andrea Dworkin will be one of the hundreds of unsung heroes who played a bigger role than almost any imagine,
17. But people like Andrea Dworkin necessarily needed their influence to be part of the background noise, rather than in the foreground, to exert the influence they did.
18. There are some graphic references in the Book of Dworkin.
19. Although they are not necessarily essential to convey the message, many would consider that they are, and in any case, they are her words, and the overall tone or essence of her writing would be affected by omissions of this kind.
20. To conclude this first chapter, the following passage, spoken by Andrea Dworkin, gives context to many parts of the Book of Dworkin:
21. There is a recently emerged definition within the feminist movement articulated, for instance, by Gloria Steinem, that says that erotica is sexually explicit material that shows mutuality and reciprocity and equality.
22. I am prepared to accept that definition as something that is not pornography.
23. In the law that I am suggesting, in what I hope will be a federal civil rights law, certainly the law that Catharine MacKinnon and I developed, applies only to sexually explicit material that subordinates women in a way that is detrimental to our civil status, and not to any sexually explicit material.