In the first essay of the book, Despentes describes herself as "more King Kong than Kate Moss," saying she is "too aggressive, too noisy, too fat, too rough, too hairy, always too masculine.

Just what cinema wishes to capture, display, distort, and in the end destroy.The book is a blend of memoir, critical theory, and feminist manifesto.

The overarching focus of the book has been described as "the ways in which our experiences of gender, power, and control are bound up in the vast, multifaceted ideology of late capitalism and our lives are organized around satisfying, or disappointing, male desire.

(p.26) She's So Depraved, You Can't Rape Her Recounting being gang-raped in 1986 at the age of 17, Despentes explains how she has processed the experience since, and how society demeans and silences women who are the victim of sexual assaults.

She notes that "post-rape, the acceptable response is to turn the violence inwards, onto yourself" (p.45) and describes rape as "civil war, a political organization through which one gender declares to the other, I have complete power over you" (p.47).

She also discusses rape fantasies, suggesting that these are the result of a "specific cultural system" that primes women to connect their oppressed position within society to their sexuality.

Sleeping With The Enemy Despentes discusses her time as a sex worker, in which she initially found clients through Minitel, a French predecessor to the internet .

She contrasts sex work with heterosexual relationships, noting that the former is demonized in order to "put across the idea that no woman may profit from her sexual services outside marriage (p.74) while the latter leads to more death through domestic violence.

(p.80) Porno Witches Pornography "hits the blind corner of reason," says Despentes, directly addressing our "primitive fantasies" and so giving the material an "almost mystical dimension" (p.85).