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

Brain is absolutely clear that “[r]ape can never be condoned,excused, or justified. On the other hand, woman [sic] should realizethe powerful effect that their clothes have in stimulating male sexualinterests. ” 24 The wide wide world of male ideas again astonishes.But it is left to Norman Mailer to proclaim the true nature andpower of women who are made, not born: in particular, to focus on,explicate, and enthuse about the extraordinary tribute inherent inbeing used as a cunt (if and only if one is a woman) by a man.Mailer finds this tribute most exhilarating and indelible in the worldof Henry Miller:In all of [Miller’s] faceless, characterless, pullulating broads, inall those cunts which undulate with the movements of eels, inall those clearly described broths of soup and grease andmarrow and wine which are all he will give us of them—theircunts are always closer to us than their faces—in all theindignities of position, the humiliation of situation, and theendless presentation of women as pure artifacts of farce, theirasses all up in the air, still he screams his barbaric yawp of utteradoration for the power and the glory and the grandeur of thefemale in the universe, and it is his genius to show us that thispower is ready to survive any context or abuse. 25The power Mailer refers to is the power to excite lust, to provokethe fuck, especially the power to cause erection: the appropriatesphere of power for a cunt, whether in the air or on the ground. Forthe fuck to exist, the cunt must exist: and abuse and humiliationonly serve to enhance the cuntiness of a cunt, which is her power,glory, and so forth, no matter how horribly she is used or degraded.The appropriate use of an object— called cunt, instrument, tool, orwoman— can never cease to be appropriate if the use correctly usesthe object’s nature and function. Objects exist or are made in orderto be used: in this case, used so that the male can experience hisdesire, or his desire to desire, or his alienation from his desire, orhis desire to enact desire, or his desire to play a stringed instrumentor to roll a log, or his desire to make dependable response patterns