When Esther Vilar published her book The Manipulated Man she was beaten up by four young women in the toilet of the Munich State Library who were angry about her perspectives.1 According to her own statement, her emigration from Germany goes back to this. The following account detailing her ongoing experience of violence by feminists was published in the San Rafael Daily Independent Journal Newspaper in 1973.2

[1] Esther Vilar: “Liebe macht unfrei”, Die Weltwoche, Ausgabe 51/2007

[2] San Rafael Daily Independent Journal Newspaper Archives January 08, 1973 Page 42.