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is controlled and chosen. A prostitute gives this description of male masochism: «My masochist clients are rather special. They are usually men who are educated, who've got money and have some pretty unbelievable vices. They want us to beat them, or crush cigarettes out on their nipples, stick pins in their penises, drag them round the room by a string tied round the tip of their tongue, defecate over their mouths, insult them. And they reply: 'yes mistress', 'all right mistress'... I am often dressed in black. I never smile. I even wear black glasses, sometimes. I must wear high-heels. It's very important. At home I have all the paraphernalia: whips, chains, dildos, handcuffs . . . Slaps, insults, strokes of the cat o'nine tails or the whip cost a hundred quid. The whole show, sodomy, etc., costs double. That's a hell of a lot of money. The longest it lasts is half an hour, sometimes a little more, up to an hour. In that case, the bloke leaves completely knackered, it'll take him a month to get over his injuries. The punters are really hurt, they have to heal afterwards. We can't pretend to hurt them, it has to be real. Especially when we stick pins into their penises, they bleed a lot because when they come all the blood rises, and when you take out the pins, it all gushes out. For this operation you have to pull the skin taut with elastic hands so as not catch any skin, stretch it well. and then stick the pins in. While you're doing this they don't cry out, they moan. they're getting a kick out of it.» [Man and sexuality / 47] (Claude Jaget, Une Vie de putain. Paris, Les Presses d'aujourd'hui, 1975) Man tends to experience the intensity of his pleasure more often through his own violence. When he gives in to his desires he generally feels the urge to rape or be brutal. He satisfies these wishes on a large scale during war. Not content with killing each other, soldiers are prepared to do anything for amusement including pillage and rape. Susan Brownmiller cites the most atrocious example of brutality during the last few years: Bangladesh, where, in 1971, Pakistani soldiers raped between two and four hundred thousand women during their ninemonth campaign. [4] However, man does not confine himself to the opportunities provided by war. He sometimes expresses his pleasure in rape and violence in his daily life. And even if he does not always commit rape, it is nonetheless frequently on his mind: he fantasises about it, and goes to see it portrayed at the cinema. It represents something beyond the commodity relationship codified by marriage or prostitution: it is the appropriation of a woman without having to give her anything in return. It enables him to satisfy his desires without giving up his power. It is the very expression of that power.
[48 / Holy virility] Rape and eroticism Rape is the archetype of masculine sexuality; when man desires, woman is not to desire or refuse, she must only acquiesce. Whether in pyjamas, as the husband imposing conjugal rights, or in army fatigues forcing his way into an enemy village, man is not accustomed to giving woman any say in the matter: either with tears in his eyes or with a sub-machine gun in his hand, he knows how to get his own way. Rape is so common that man almost feels that it does not exist, like the barrister, a few years ago, who declared during the trial of three rapists: 'is not the sexual freedom flaunted by the women an encouragement?' This was taken up in the letters page of the left-wing Paris daily, Liberation: 'And what about the woman's woman's responsibility in her own rape? ... not wearing a bra, wearing tight-fitting jeans, perfume and make-up, are these not a provocation?' [5] The answer is contained in the way the question is phrased: if man rapes it is because woman asks for it, therefore it is not rape ―this kind of logic is historically deeply rooted in the masculine mind, as this little dialogue from Euripides shows: Helen: Thou diest and Ι, woe's me, shall wed perforce. Menelaus: Thou shouldst be traitress - false the plea of force! [6] In fact man likes to think that violence is the pretext woman has been waiting for to let herself be appropriated; and so he can rape without any qualms and with a clear conscience. Man likes to invent the idea that woman has a rape fantasy which complements his own, and sometimes he even goes so far as to claim that he himself cannot wait to be raped. This mental juggling enables him to embellish reality and to disguise the fact that rape, more than being a mental game, is the very real appropriation of a human being through violence and under no circumstances can it be described as a pleasant experience for its victims. [Man and sexuality / 49] Man should be aware of the violence of rape since the rape of men is not an unheard of phenomenon. It occurs in military barracks out of the way spots and frequently in prisons. Susan Brownmiller [7] cites the case of an American peace demonstrator who was raped by more than forty-five prisoners in the course of two nights spent in prison in 1973 in Washington DC. Obviously, in most cases, a man prefers to
Page 1 and 2: EMMANUEL REYNAUD HOLY VIRILITY THE
Page 3 and 4: 1 INTRODUCTION Old ideas die hard;
Page 5 and 6: [Introduction / 3] The division int
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Page 9 and 10: tenderness, etc.― give rise more
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Page 13 and 14: you shall win your food from it all
Page 15 and 16: Whatever the truth about the origin
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Page 19 and 20: sufficient to guarantee his power,
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Page 23 and 24: It seems that over the last few yea
Page 25 and 26: Desiring to be a woman Man sometime
Page 27 and 28: definition. But he does not usually
Page 29 and 30: Ignorance and mutilation For a long
Page 31 and 32: Yet the institution of circumcision
Page 33 and 34: with their gentle swaying are more
Page 35 and 36: associated with power, but the dime
Page 37 and 38: 4 MAN AND SEXUALITY Man does not al
Page 39: ealised them successfully. Of cours
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Page 45 and 46: mind make up a single indissociable
Page 47 and 48: consider his penis as an organ asso
Page 49 and 50: 5 THE MYTH OF THE PHALLIC ORGASM Ma
Page 51 and 52: is frigid, and not in imagination:
Page 53 and 54: Male sexuality and its breakdowns M
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Page 59 and 60: the flesh by exerting total control
Page 61 and 62: appropriation of women means that a
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Page 65 and 66: [The daddy and the rapist / 77] Art
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Page 71 and 72: discord that women are supposed to
Page 73 and 74: wife cannot claim her body as her o
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Page 77 and 78: The contradictions of appropriation
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Page 81 and 82: sacrifice. But at the same time he
Page 83 and 84: [Between men / 99] Faced with the w
Page 85 and 86: There is never a human being at the
Page 87 and 88: Relations between men in patriarchy
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fragility of power when men at last
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Power rid of its eternal alibi appe
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doing this, they have set in motion
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2. MAN AND HIS BODY 1. Joseph Dietz
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6. THE DADDY AND THE RAPIST 1. Heid
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