Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

pregnant woman, rendered more exciting if she was in an advancedstage of pregnancy. Nothing could be calculated to please Sademore than the horrible deaths of women butchered in illegalabortions. This is Sade’s sexuality realized.In Sade’s work, both male and female children are maimed,raped, ^tortured, killed. Men especially go after their daughters,sometimes raising them specifically to become paramours, mostoften abusing them and then passing them on to close male friendsto be used and killed. Sade’s obsession with sexual violence againstchildren of both sexes is transformed by his literary lackeys, true toform, into another demonstration of Sade’s progressive sexualradicalism. As Geoffrey Gorer wrote: “According to de Sade, veryyoung children are shameless, sexually inquisitive and endowedwith strong sexual feelings. Children are naturally polymorphousperverts. ” 43 Actually, according to Sade, adult men find it particularlygratifying to kidnap, rape, torture, and kill children.Sade is concerned too with the violation of the mother—not onlyas wife to her husband but also as victim of her children. A constantconceit throughout Sade’s fiction is that fathers are wondrous sexualbeings, mothers stupid and repressed prudes who would be betteroff as whores (or as the whores they really are). As a philosopher,Sade maintains consistently that one owes nothing to one’s m other,for the father is the source of human life:. . . Be unafraid, Eugenie [the heroine], and adopt these samesentiments; they are natural: uniquely formed of our sires’blood, we owe absolutely nothing to our mothers. W hat,furthermore, did they do but co-operate in the act which ourfathers, on the contrary, solicited? Thus, it was the father whodesired our birth, whereas the mother merely consentedthereto. 44Contempt for the mother is an integral part of Sade’s discourse:It is madness to suppose one owes something to one’s mother.And upon what, then, would gratitude be based? Is one to bethankful that she discharged [sic] when someone once fuckedher? 45