MacKinnon has thoroughly defeated the Freudian school--especially its radical Reichian components. While Freud hemmed and hawed about whether people get enough sex and satisfaction and whether that was central to mental illness, Reich does not and he makes sexual satisfaction the pivot of his work.

The problem with the Reichian analysis is that it is biological and psychological. Even if it were true that there are biological needs the likes of which Reich addressed, it would not follow that in current society propagating Reich's thought would help. The reason is that Reich is simply used by men to justify their need to get off and use wimmin.

Here is what MacKinnon said about the naive approach to gender and power: "Because the inequality of the sexes is socially defined as the enjoyment of sexuality itself, gender inequality appears consensual. This helps explain the peculiar durability of male supremacy as a system of hegemony as well as its imperviousness to change once it exists. . . . The belief that whatever is sexually arousing is, ipso facto, empowering for women is revealed as a strategy in male rule. . . . It may even be that to be 'anti-sex,' to be against this sex that is sex, is to refuse to affirm loyalty to this political system of inequality whose dynamic is male control and use and access to women--which would account for the stigma of the epithet."

(Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified (Cambridge, MA: 1987), pp.7-8)

"I think feminism is developing a non-Freudian theory of sexuality. Repressed in the Freudian sense is not exactly what has been done to women's sexuality. We have experienced deadening and silence and subordination. Male sexuality has not exactly been repressed either. Men have eroticized the idea that their sexuality has been denied, but their sexuality has been nothing but expressed and expressed and expressed. Sexual liberation, from this perspective, looks like a male rationalization for forcing sex on women."

(Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified (Cambridge, MA: 1987), p. 144)