India, Feb. 14 -- 'Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism: that which is most one's own, yet most taken away,' Catherine MacKinnon, feminist legal scholar, laid it bare. Yet, the idea that sexual relations often reproduce structural inequality seems too theoretical, too radical to many. We still do not want to talk about this. Unless it's in a flippant, titillating manner. Or performed for views and likes on social media. Can we, however, spare a thought for the utter breakdown of equality in desire, often leading to its absence?

And while we are at it, we can collectively thank pornography for the same. Contemporary pornography is pedagogical. It teaches, supplies choreography, tone, and hierarchy. It sets the "mood". The sexu...