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

to organismic behavioral objects. Women are used in the makingand made in the using.The love of or desire for or obsession with a sexual object is, inmale culture, seen as a response to the qualities of the object itself.Since the first preoccupation is with the form of the object, menmake great claims for the particular forms that provoke lust or theability to fuck in them. What Becker refers to as a dependableresponse pattern, in the field of sexual psychology, is most oftencalled objectification. Objectification is the accomplished fact: aninternalized, nearly invariable response by the male to a form thatis, in his estimation and experience, sufficiently whatever he needsto provoke arousal. T he proper bounds of objectification as anappropriate response to an appropriate object are set by psychologists,the high priests of secular culture: the form of a woman, acomposite of women’s attributes, a part of a woman’s body.Anything or anyone else is seen as some kind of substitute for awoman or the male-defined sexual parts of her body. It isinappropriate to substitute. Male supremacy depends on the abilityof men to view women as sexual objects, and deviations from thisexercise in male power and female oblivion are discouraged.Nevertheless, objectification occurs on a massive scale with regardto inappropriate objects: males, leather, rubber, underwear, and soon. Objectification—that fixed response to the form of another thathas as its inevitable consequence erection— is really a value systemthat has ejaculation as its inexorable, if momentary, denouement.Objectification, carried by the male not only as if it were hispersonal nature but as if it were nature itself, denotes who or whatthe male loves to hate; who or what he wants to possess, act on,conquer, define himself in opposition to; where he wants to spill hisseed. T he primary target of objectification is the woman. In maleculture, men do argue about the proper bounds of objectification,especially about the viability of objectifying other males; but mendo not argue about the moral meaning of objectification as such. Itis taken for granted that a sexual response is an objectified response:that is, a response aroused by an object with specific attributes thatin themselves provoke sexual desire. Objectification is a rather