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

is propaganda, whether used for social causes or for masturbation.Women, too, are sadists; she ignored that. Humans, whetherby nature or nurture, are often villains. Big news. 5Actually, this is “big news” to women whose lives are circumscribedby the sexual sadism of males; but it is good news to thosemales who justify their abuse of women by believing that womenare sexually sadistic at heart and that the sadism of women isformidable despite the fact that it is not socially or historically selfevident.The cage is justified because the animal inside it is wild anddangerous. The sexual philosophers, like the pornographers, needto believe that women are more dangerous than men or asdangerous as men so as to be justified in their social and sexualdomination of them. As long as this alleged female sadism iscontrolled by men, it can be manipulated to give men pleasure:dominance in the male system is pleasure.At the same time, essential to this gratification on some level isthe illusion that the women are not controlled by men but are actingfreely. The photographs of the two women are a peek through akeyhole. The conceit is that since the male is not in the photographs,the women are doing what they want to do willfully and forthemselves: “When Katherina was asked why she was having herpubic hair styled, she told us that it was purely for her own self. ”What women in private want to do just happens to be what menwant them to do. This is the meanest theme of pornography: theelucidation of what men insist is the secret, hidden, true carnality ofwomen, free women. When the secret is revealed, the whore isexposed. The woman in private (female privacy as a state of beingthat is emphasized when two females are pictured together withouta male) is, in fact, the shameless slut, all life and value in the vagina,all pride in the genitals, the scissors the appropriate tool of entry.Cut the castrating woman before she cuts. Coleridge’s “willingsuspension of disbelief’ operates more consistently in the viewing ofpornography than it ever has in the reading of literature. Thewilling suspension of disbelief is crucial. Without it, one might