In Dworkin's essay about pornography and its effects upon sexuality and society, she claims that pornography is 'objective and real and central to the male sexual system'. The male system is one that is a patriarchal oppression of women as nothing more than objects to fulfill men's sexual desires. She also goes on to say that 'in the male system, women are sex; sex is the whore. The whore is porne, the lowest whore, the whore who belongs to all male citizens: the slut, the cunt.' Dworkin believes that pornography is just one way for men to debase women and make them into mere objects, it is a self perpetuating system because watching pornography makes the depictions of women and sex 'real' and those expectations fuel the further objectification of women. MacKinnon supports this view of a perpetuating system in her essay about 'sexualities'. 'Women cope with objectification through trying to meet the male standard and measure their self worth by the degree to which they succeed.' MacKinnon relates objectification to hierarchy in her essay as well, 'what is sexual is what gives a man an erection...Hierarchy, a constant creation of person/thing, top/bottom, dominate/subordination relations, does.' The two essays support one another in their appraisal of some of the causes of objectification.