Objectivity is the methodological stance of which objectification is the social process. Sexual objectification is the primary process of the subject… - Catharine MacKinnon

In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of "sex"; they were not coerced enough.

Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.

Nor is homosexuality without stake in this gendered sexual system. Putting to one side the obviously gendered content of expressly adopted roles, clothing, and sexual mimicry, to the extent the gender of a sexual object is crucial to arousal, the structure of social power that stands behind and defines gender is hardly irrelevant, even if it is rearranged.